by Team LEISA India | Nov 15, 2017 | Interviews
“Healthy soils give family farmers autonomy, resilience and long-term productivity” “If you have a healthy, living soil, you have healthy plants and healthy people. These three things are closely linked.” Irene Cardoso, professor of soil science is passionate about...
by Team LEISA India | Nov 14, 2017 | Interviews
“Working together is a motivating and powerful approach to getting things done” says Jeff Campbell, manager of the Forest and Farm Facility. “This holds true for my own approach to life; for the work of the millions of forest and farm families stitching together...
by Team LEISA India | Nov 14, 2017 | Interviews
“When you look at the map of global agrobiodiversity hotspots you realise that they are identical with indigenous people’s habitats. These 370 million people in the world have been agrobiodiversity custodians for millennia,” says Phrang Roy, co-ordinator of the...
by Team LEISA India | Nov 14, 2017 | Interviews
Working as a sustainable land management specialist at the Centre for International Cooperation of the Free University in Amsterdam, and as a Senior Fellow at the World Resources Institute, in Washington, Chris Reij is the facilitator of “African Re-greening...
by Team LEISA India | Nov 14, 2017 | Interviews
Promoting the holistic nature of nutrition and its links with family farming and local markets is Luis Ginocchio’s ‘bread and butter’ as the expression goes. For Peru’s former Minister of Agriculture, who also authored the book ‘Small farming and food’, it is an...
by Team LEISA India | Nov 14, 2017 | Interviews
“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 believe...
