by Team LEISA India | Mar 29, 2016 | Articles, Education, Knowledge exchange
In an innovative effort to mainstream locally relevant knowledge to promote sustainable agriculture, DDS is building the capacities of the grassroot professionals. In the process, there is a new knowledge being created and exchanged, wherein the scientific basis of...
by Team LEISA India | Mar 29, 2016 | Articles
The co-creation of knowledge about agricultural biodiversity is an essential part of peasant strategies for survival and autonomy. Facing the threats of the industrial model of production and consumption, peasants and social movements are defending agroecology and...
by Team LEISA India | Mar 29, 2016 | Agriculture Policy, Agroecology, Articles
A summary of outcomes of the regional consultation Conscious of the need to embed agroecology within local and regional socio-ecological realities, the first Multistakeholder Consultation on Agroecology for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok in November 2015 assessed the...
by Team LEISA India | Mar 24, 2016 | Animal Husbandry, Articles, Livestock Management
Strengthening institutional and physical spaces for poor livestock keepers The communities are mainly agro-pastoralists who belong to tribal and non-tribal groups. Tribal communities are mainly located in the southern district of Udaipur with a more heterogeneous...
by Team LEISA India | Mar 24, 2016 | Animal Husbandry, Articles
Farmers are trying out different options to improve the feed management in dairy animals. They are looking at options which reduce costs and at the same time do not affect the milk yields. The participatory technology development process provided a farmer centered...
by Team LEISA India | Mar 24, 2016 | Animal Husbandry, Articles, Livestock Management
The development of Livestock Keepers Rights and the Biocultural Protocols will be important tools in supporting the livelihoods of livestock keeping communities and the survival of the biodiversity they have managed over centuries. Traditional livestock keeping in...
