by Team LEISA India | Aug 30, 2023 | Editorial
Farmers and fisher folk in India have practiced aquaculture since time immemorial. Traditional fish culture carried out in small ponds in eastern India, indicates that aquaculture was a major vocation for local communities. Even today, it is hard to find a household...
by Team LEISA India | Mar 17, 2023 | Editorial
Millet farming systems The paradigmatic shift from agriculture to agribusiness model, based on high input intensive farming eroded local food systems. These systems got stifled further by globalisation influencing ‘exotic’ food choices and local public distribution...
by Team LEISA India | Dec 26, 2022 | Editorial
Renewable Energy in Agriculture Ecological agriculture and Renewable Energy are based on the same fundamental principles – Living in communion with Nature recognising eco relationships; judicious use, reuse and recycling of resources while reducing harmful pollution;...
by Team LEISA India | Sep 20, 2022 | Editorial
Building farm resilience Building farm resilience is all about preparing farmers to cope, absorb and recover from challenges in dealing with their agricultural production and livelihoods. Small and marginal farmers are invariably caught in fragile eco systems with...
by Team LEISA India | Jun 24, 2022 | Editorial
Agroecology education ‘Agroecology’, as a fairly new term in India, is finally catching up. The principles of agroecology have been practised for several generations following traditional agriculture. Of late it has taken different names and forms like sustainable...
by Team LEISA India | Mar 22, 2022 | Editorial
Urban Agriculture With 50% of the Indian population expected to live in cities by 2050, there is a huge challenge of meeting the nutritional security and sanitation needs of the urban dwellers. There is a need to prevent further land use changes, unregulated...
