by Team LEISA India | Dec 14, 2015 | Agroecology, Agroecology and Development, Articles
Farmers of fragile agro-ecosystems have developed some unique integrated farming systems, to make their farms more resilient to factors like changing climatic conditions, declining soil fertility levels and decreasing farm income. While many NGOs have promoted such... 
by Team LEISA India | Dec 14, 2015 | Agroecology, Agroecology and Development, Articles
“Agroecology is really common sense. It means understanding how nature works, to replicate the natural workings of nature on farms in order to reduce dependency on external inputs. Agroecology preserves the ability for future generations to feed themselves. I... 
by Team LEISA India | Dec 14, 2015 | Articles, Social Organisation
Farmers in Madhya Pradesh are improving crop productivity and increasing their incomes by creating social enterprises using ecologically sound and sustainable practices. The social enterprise model has not only helped farmers to earn better incomes with very low... by Team LEISA India | Dec 14, 2015 | Articles, Women
Kerala’s Kudumbashree (KDS) and Andhra Pradesh’s Indira Kranthi Patham (IKP) are two programmes that are often cited as having achieved both women’s empowerment and rural livelihoods successfully on scale. A study, commissioned by UNWOMEN and implemented by Landesa,... 
by Team LEISA India | Dec 14, 2015 | Agroecology, Agroecology and Development, Articles
The three tier institutional model of working with smallholders has delivered better services to the farmers in Tamil Nadu. The role clarity of organizations at each level and the organic linkage between them has helped in addressing both social and economic issues... 
by Team LEISA India | Dec 14, 2015 | Agroecology, Agroecology and Development, Articles
Agriculture must be redirected to environmentally sound, socially just production methods to address the food and energy crises, hunger, poverty and climate change, reports Olivier De Schutter, Special Rapporteur to the UN on the right to food. Agroecology, which...