Building market linkage is crucial for enabling farmers get better incomes. Facilitating market linkage involves understanding the demand and supply situation, transient storage...
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Farmer producer organisations – Enhancing farmers share in the consumer price
Muttlur farmers are increasing their share in the consumer price by organizing themselves as producer organization. By resolving issues of trader exploitation, exploring new...
Promoting youth as agri-preneurs
Through an innovative pilot programme on training rural youth in sustainable agriculture, the Ministry of Agriculture Development in Nepal succeeded in addressing two major...
The Narayana Reddy Column: Educating youth on alternatives – The need of the hour
Indian farmers are at the cross roads. Every year their problems are compounding owing to several reasons - degradation of natural resources like land, water, forests, climatic...
ZIMSOFF and the Shashe Agro-Ecology School
While it is now widely acknowledged that a smallholder based, agro-ecological food production system is the best way to eradicate hunger and to reduce the impact of agriculture...
Plant Health Clinics: Linking farmers with scientific knowledge
Plant health clinics is a unique initiative tried by the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute and the Department of Agricultural Extension to link the coastal farmers with the...
The School of Biodynamic Farming: Retaining youth in farming sector
Finding agriculture unremunerative, a number of youth are seeking livelihood opportunities outside agriculture. To address this issue, The School of Biodynamic Farming has...
Growing organically: Enhancing knowledge through cultural exchange
To impart organic farming education to the new generation that heavily relies on chemical farming, WWOOF INDIA is making an attempt to link young professionals across the world...
“We are working to propel change”
Having grown up and studied in the enormous city of Mumbai, India, Meenakshi Singh and Umesh Chandrasekhar were looking for an alternative way of life. After spending eight years...
e-Arik Center: Using ICT for educating farmers
The ICT based agricultural education has the potential of empowering farming communities by improving access to information and knowledge sharing. The Village Knowledge Centers...
Seeds and FFSs
The agrobiodiverstiy@knowledged programme initiated by Oxfam Novib and Hivos, aims at generating and sharing evidence and insights for transformation in the area of agricultural...
Farmer Field Schools – Learning on the farm
Farmers in Takuche village in Nepal learnt eco-friendly ways of managing pests in apple orchards through Farmer Field School. The year long school also enriched them with the...