by Team LEISA India | Nov 23, 2015 | Articles, Marketing, Trade
Poultry rearing is a traditional and age-old practice in rural areas. It is recognized as a potential tool to fight poverty and malnutrition. Establishing good linkages among the rural producers and urban consumers will go a long way in sustaining this rural... 
by Team LEISA India | Nov 23, 2015 | Agroecology, Agroecology and Development, Articles
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is one of the best examples of a successful, alternative food distribution system, providing real income to producers and affordable healthy food for consumers. Food continues to be grown in peri-urban areas and trust between... 
by Team LEISA India | Nov 23, 2015 | Articles
Providing direct market access to the farmers plays a crucial role in the economic development. Farmers markets are an integral part of the rural-urban linkage and have continued to rise in popularity with the growing consumer interest in obtaining fresh products... 
by Team LEISA India | Nov 23, 2015 | Agroecology, Agroecology and Development, Articles
As cities continue to expand and more people migrate to urban areas, current unsustainable patterns of urbanization and ineffective policies are no longer acceptable. The typical approaches that maintain the separation between rural and urban, neglect the ways that... 
by Team LEISA India | Nov 23, 2015 | Agroecology, Agroecology and Development, Articles
Food systems that intend to meet the long-distance export and which are based on highly mechanical and chemical productions are not the solutions for the present day problems in agriculture. While we need not discover any newer forms of food systems or agriculture, we... 
by Team LEISA India | Nov 23, 2015 | Agroecology, Agroecology and Development, Articles
‘Food’ as we all know it, is a common denominator amongst the people – whether produced by rural or urban communities. In India even more so, it is a great equaliser when it comes to the aspirational eating habits of rural and urban India. As a growing economy...