by Team LEISA India | Sep 30, 2016 | Editorial
The Sustainable Development Goals, recently endorsed by the United Nations, explicitly mention the need to transform our current input heavy food systems in order to make them more sustainable. Agro ecology driven by family farmers is clearly seen as a way to achieve...
by Team LEISA India | Jun 7, 2016 | Editorial
The rapid expansion of modern agriculture has resulted in an unprecedented loss of plant genetic diversity. Dependence on just a few crops has made food production dangerously vulnerable to crop failures. Further, climate change conditions with increasing frequency...
by Team LEISA India | May 18, 2016 | Editorial
There is an increasing recognition and concern that water as a scarce and vital natural resource needs to be carefully conserved, judiciously utilized and effectively managed. The role of water in serving diverse needs, such as drinking water, agriculture, cleaning...
by Team LEISA India | May 3, 2016 | Editorial
India’s rural poor are overwhelmingly dependent on agriculture as their primary source of income; the majority are marginal or small farmers, and the poorest households are landless. Rural households typically depend on two types of incomes: farm income which is...
by Team LEISA India | Mar 29, 2016 | Editorial
‘Agro ecological farming can double the food production in ten years while mitigating climate change and alleviating poverty’, said Olivier De Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, emphasizing the need to shift to more eco friendly farming for...
by Team LEISA India | Mar 24, 2016 | Editorial
Keeping livestock is traditional and closely linked to rural culture, indicative of the fact that rural families have always realised the importance of livestock. The central role of livestock in natural resource based livelihood strategies, particularly that of poor...
