by Team LEISA India | Feb 2, 2016 | Articles, Youth
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO, works to raise levels of nutrition, improve agricultural productivity and the lives of rural populations, and to contribute to the growth of the world economy. The Gender, Equity and Rural Employment... 
by Team LEISA India | Feb 2, 2016 | Articles, Youth
While conventional educational methods have made learning as abstract as possible, rarely connecting the leaner to reality, Puvidham Learning Centre has been shaping the thoughts of young minds by creating an environment where the inherent sensitivity and intuition of... 
by Team LEISA India | Feb 2, 2016 | Articles, Youth
With little investment but conducive conditions, a bias against agriculture, an indifference vis a vis nature can easily be transformed into a positive and inquisitive attitude of learning and discovering and loving nature. This is what the field school of the... 
by Team LEISA India | Feb 2, 2016 | Articles, Youth
With increasing number of rural youth joining the labour market, rural entrepreneurship is seen as an important source of job creation where youth can be gainfully employed. But this requires investment in the youth in terms of building skills and capacities and... by Team LEISA India | Feb 2, 2016 | Articles, Youth
Young people from farming families are opting out of agriculture, perceiving farming as drudgery and unremunerative. Baduku addressed this issue by helping these young farmers realize agriculture as a sustainable livelihood option and building their capacities in... 
by Team LEISA India | Feb 2, 2016 | Articles, Youth
Opportunities for rural youth entrepreneurs are several. If educated youth choose to live in villages and launch the new agriculture movement, based on the integrated application of science and social wisdom, our untapped demographic dividend will become our greatest...