by Team LEISA India | Dec 24, 2015 | Articles
Rio+20 has sparked international attention to sustainable agricultural development, but this has been a point of attention for many people for years. An agricultural sociologist, Ann Waters-Bayer was for a long time involved in the production of the ILEIA Newsletter... 
by Team LEISA India | Dec 24, 2015 | Articles, Renewable energy, Resource Management, Water Management
While the country is blessed with numerous rivers and streams fed by snow melting in high Himalayas, however, water is not available to the communities for drinking, farming and irrigation owing to higher elevation. Hydram is a resource efficient and low carbon... by Team LEISA India | Dec 24, 2015 | Agroecology, Agroecology and Development, Articles
Forest-based carbon-sequestering model has been positioned as a win-win system that connects the developed with the developing economies. While certain conditions are to be met for communities to gain from these projects, the developed countries can continue their... 
by Team LEISA India | Dec 24, 2015 | Agroecology, Agroecology and Development, Articles
Farmers when organized, guided and supported can chart their own development and progress. The organic farmers of Sirkazhi have proven this by following practices and processes that are environmentally sound, socially inclusive and economically profitable, moving... 
by Team LEISA India | Dec 24, 2015 | Agroecology, Agroecology and Development, Articles
While everybody is talking about a “green economy”, what we seem to be missing is a critique of the very concept. However hard the term has tried to appear different, it still makes many people feel uncomfortable. How can we ensure that the new “green economy” is not... 
by Team LEISA India | Dec 23, 2015 | Articles, Farmer Organisations/FPO, Social Organisation
Farmers in North Karnataka region have organised themselves and have found solutions together in overcoming crop failures. Their initiative in including medicinal herbs in their cropping systems is paying rich dividends. Gadag district in north Karnataka is a drought...