by Team LEISA India | Sep 20, 2017 | Interviews
Traditional crops … the basis of our food and farming systems Mariam Mayet is the director of the African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB). In a recent report, ACB turns their attention towards genetic modification of non-commercial ‘orphan crops’ and the way this...
by Team LEISA India | Apr 4, 2017 | Interviews
“Food sovereignty is about peasant rights” Interview: Tomáš Uhnák Ramona Dominicioiu is a member of Eco Ruralis, a peasant association in Romania. In this interview, Ramona explains why the food sovereignty movement is not only about food, and why defending the...
by Team LEISA India | May 18, 2016 | Interviews
Based in Oakland, California, the Oakland Institute is a policy think tank with a mission to increase public participation and promote open debate on important social, economic and environmental issues. It aims to stimulate public discussion and debate and to “reframe...
by Team LEISA India | Feb 26, 2016 | Articles, Interviews
Interview: Mireille Vermeulen Next to his work at the Millennium Institute, Mr Herren is co-chair of the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD). The publication of “Agriculture at a Crossroads” in 2008...
by Team LEISA India | Nov 26, 2015 | Articles, Interviews, Resource Management, Soil Management
“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 soils and family farmers. She advocates for greater support for family farmers to take...
by Team LEISA India | Nov 17, 2015 | Articles, Interviews
”Water is the engine of change” Interview: Henkjan Laats All her working life, Elizabeth Peredo has been engaged in defending human and environmental rights. For ten years until August 2015 she was the director of the Bolivian organisation Fundación Solón that aims to...
