by Team LEISA India | Feb 24, 2016 | Articles, Resource Management, Seeds
An initiative to promote sustainable food and nutrition security Village gene seed grain banks are one of the important methods used to provide seed, food and nutrition security and conserve agro biodiversity. Such decentralized system where villagers themselves plan,... by Team LEISA India | Feb 24, 2016 | Articles
Nature has provided a unique system of food security. From the womb of a mother, the life starts securing food and the process continues during the childhood and onwards. Plants also secure its own food through photosynthesis. Human being is the only creature who... 
by Team LEISA India | Feb 24, 2016 | Agroecology, Articles, Food safety, security and sovereignity
A realistic vision or flight of fancy? Food shortages, nutritional imbalances and ecological degradation are the direct consequences of distorted government policies. Only a movement away from the present model of agriculture to one that is based on locally adapted... 
by Team LEISA India | Feb 24, 2016 | Articles, Resource Management, Seeds
Around the world, agribusiness pulls in profit by controlling access to seed, severely limiting the number of varieties sold, and patenting certain genetically modified seeds – all the while claiming to improve food security. Meanwhile, a decentralized but powerful... by Team LEISA India | Feb 24, 2016 | Agroecology, Articles, Food safety, security and sovereignity
Agro-biodiversity is the most important requisite for having a healthy and strong regional food system. It is genetic diversity that allows regional food systems to be productive, even in times of ecological stress. The richness in the genetic diversity of crops means... 
by Team LEISA India | Feb 24, 2016 | Agroecology, Articles, Food safety, security and sovereignity
Campaign on Food Sovereignty in Mayurbhanj Believing that people have knowledge, giving due recognition to that knowledge, creating platforms to share and strengthening their capacities is what DULAL has supported by facilitating a people-centered development process....