by Team LEISA India | Apr 13, 2018 | Editorial
Sustainable food systems, while preserving the environment, ecosystems and biodiversity should also be able to ensure economic prosperity. While the value chain in conventional agricultural systems refers to the value added to the product from the farm to the...
by Team LEISA India | Apr 4, 2018 | Call for Articles
Farmers interested in chemical free farming have been traditionally using biologicals. With the advent of Green revolution agriculture, the emphasis shifted to chemical inputs. However, there has been increased awareness on use of biologicals in recent years as they...
by Team LEISA India | Mar 20, 2018 | Editorial
Livestock forms an important livelihood support system for about seventy million rural households in India, especially in the arid and semi-arid regions of the country. They are infact integral to rural life, supporting agriculture, contributing to the household...
by Team LEISA India | Jan 9, 2018 | Editorial
We do get disturbed with climate change, depleting resources, increasing hunger and malnutrition, eroding farm productivity and incomes, rural urban inequities. Climate change is not an absolutely new phenomenon. Malnutrition has been existing and is increasing owing...
by Team LEISA India | Jan 9, 2018 | English Magazine Contents
Read the magazine Millets has been a part of daily diet in several regions in India. They were a part of biodiverse traditional cropping systems meeting the requirements of food, nutrition and fodder, contributing to sustainable food production till modernization and...
by Team LEISA India | Nov 15, 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...