by Team LEISA India | Dec 10, 2015 | Editorial
Majority of rural communities in India are dependent on farming, forest and common lands to fulfil their livelihood needs. As rural farm livelihoods heavily depend on natural resources like land and water, the farming communities have been adept in practicing farming...
by Team LEISA India | Dec 9, 2015 | Editorial
Good nutritional status is an important indicator of development. Despite an apparent surplus of food grains at the national level, and several efforts being made through favourable public policies, malnutrition persists. India is challenged with 43.5% children under...
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 26, 2015 | Editorial
Soil is an ecosystem full of life. It is neither a lifeless weathering crust of the rocks nor a single organism, but a biological organisation of the plants (with the roots), micro organisms and tiny creatures. It houses a world of tiny living creatures like microbes,...
by Team LEISA India | Nov 23, 2015 | Editorial
Changing urban food demand has many implications on the food supplies from the rural areas. Urban population is increasing all over the world, more so in countries like China and India. Indian Census 2011 indicates that around 91 million people are added to urban...
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...
