‘Kutumba Kai Thottas’ or family kitchen gardens are being successfully promoted in Karnataka, to supplement the nutritional intake of these families and provide a source for...
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Digital Platform for promoting improved technologies
Mobile phone, owing to its affordability, accessibility and widespread network is emerging as a preferred digital tool for information dissemination for smallholder farmers....
Leveraging digital tools – For adaptive food systems in India during the COVID – 19 lockdown
Despite many exemptions from lockdown, the agricultural sector in India has experienced major disruptions due to the COVID-19 crisis. Agriculture in India employs about 55% of...
Enabling digital transformation in agriculture
Digitalisation in agriculture is not just the future, but the present reality of global agriculture. Digital technologies have been a major potential booster to the world of...
Turning technology into a tool for regenerative agroecology
Conventional digital market platforms are extractive in nature.Krishi Janani’s marketplace platform in Tamil Nadu is building an alternative model that emphasizes...
Going digital – Integrating experiential innovations in coconut farming
Small farms can become efficient when tacit knowledge of farmers is integrated with explicit knowledge from other sources. ICAR’s initiative has shown that this could be possible...
Digital solutions for Aquaculture
FarmMOJO is a digital solution to problems in aquaculture. It is a simple mobile application that provides advices on water quality, feed usage and the overall health indicators...
Bringing digital technology to farmers’ door steps
Today we are more dependent on digital technologies than ever before. This paradigm shift towards digital technologies should not further marginalise the small and marginal...
Celebrating 20 years of LEISA India – the context, the product, the process and the movement
It all started in 1998, when the concept of LEISA (Low External Input Sustainable Agriculture) was new and evolving in India. By distributing ILEIA Newsletter to around 1000...
Cultivating biodiversity
In the Deccan region of India, over 60,000 women peasants are feeding their families, their culture and their pride with biodiverse farming practices. Their knowledge and...
Rejuvenated landscape, rejuvenated lives
This is the story of how the people of Kaluchi Thakarwadi changed their destiny: a story of transformation from desert to replenished watershed. Kaluchi Thakarwadi is no longer a...
Pashu Sakhi – An alternative livestock extension approach
With access to knowledge and inputs, the goat rearers of Gondia district in Maharashtra are able to make a decent livelihood with goat rearing. A community based alternative...