by Team LEISA India | Dec 23, 2015 | Articles, Farmer Organisations/FPO, Social Organisation
Access to land is the greatest limitation, especially for the poor women. The problem becomes more acute when these women are single and neglected by families, often leading to hunger and starvation. The Tamil Nadu Women’s Collective has succeeded in enabling such... by Team LEISA India | Dec 23, 2015 | Articles, Farmer Organisations/FPO, Farmer's Diary, Social Organisation
From a joint family to the United Nations we have a good experience of the benefits derived of being organized. There are organized unions for every sector all over the world. In India, we have farmers unions right from the district level to the national level. But to... 
by Team LEISA India | Dec 23, 2015 | Articles, Farmer Organisations/FPO, Social Organisation
Alienation of local communities from the forests and their management has resulted in resource degradation and loss of livelihoods. Rajasthan Charwaha Vikas Sanghathan, a people’s network is a platform to help tribal communities regain their traditional rights over... by Team LEISA India | Dec 23, 2015 | Articles, Farmer Organisations/FPO, Social Organisation
Agricultural extension systems in both developed and developing countries have successfully increased the technical, economic, social, leadership skills and knowledge of farmers by helping them organize into producer and farmer groups. A new agricultural extension... 
by Team LEISA India | Dec 23, 2015 | Articles, Farmer Organisations/FPO, Social Organisation
Market access is one of the most critical linkages in farming business for the rural farm households; it is also evident that they are a prerequisite for enhancing agriculture-based economic growth and increasing rural incomes. Rural incomes will not be substantially... by Team LEISA India | Dec 23, 2015 | Articles, Farmer Organisations/FPO, Social Organisation
As a farmer, the newly appointed FAO Special Ambassador for Co-operatives, Elisabeth Atangana, is familiar with farmers’ organisations at many different levels. She is president of the National Dialogue of Peasant Organizations in her native country, Cameroon...