4 Editorial
6 Development dilemmas and farmers’ organisations
Jeyanth K. Newport and Godfrey G.P.Jawahar
9 Learning together for organic farming
Hans Peter Reinders
12 Traditional farmers’ groups supporting sustainable farming
Mihin Dollo
15 Indigenous water management system by the farmers of northeastern hill region
A. K. Singh
16 Producers Companies – a new generation farmers institution
Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi and Arun R. Joshi
18 Social Regulation: A viable Option for Groundwater Management
Sreenath Dixit, V. Kishtappa, G. Ravindra Chary and Ramamohan R.V
20 Self-employment generation by Organic vegetable cultivation and marketing and goat rearing – a collective challenge of women farmers
Suresh Kanna
21 Collective action for marketing by tribal communities
G.A.Patil, S.G.Shukla, K.S.Chapalgaonkar
23 The Lagos State Fish Farmers’ Association
Y. O. Basorun and J. O. Olakulehin
25 Women organize for seeds – an experience from Tamil Nadu
28 Farmer Field School: Farmer centric agriculture extension approaches
Rakhi Saxena & Ajay Saxena
30 The Narayana Reddy Column : Farmer to farmer sharing
32 Sources
34 Networking
35 New Books
36 Well known initiatives