By transforming and reorienting agricultural systems, innovative farmers are able to build resilience in farming and ensure food security, in a changing climate situation....
Crop planning – A tool for climate resilient food system
Crop production is highly location specific and depends on a number of factors like climate, natural resources, access to inputs, knowledge etc. Farm level crop planning goes a...
Reviving crop biodiversity, restoring food sovereignty
The indigenous Kutia Kondh community in Odisha has a rich knowledge and experience of millets-based, mixed farming systems. By reviving the community based seed banks and...
Agroecology – Conserving biodiversity, nurturing ecology
Agroecology approach is a way to make farming sustainable. It is also a way to resist the corporate agriculture model pushed through the green revolution and gene revolution....
Past for the present
Revival of agro biodiversity that characterizes traditional agriculture is crucial for addressing food and nutrition security. Bringing back millets, pulses, coarse cereals...
Enhancing crop diversity leads to farm resilience
Monocropping of cash crops for generating incomes has displaced mixed farming systems and associated local crop diversity, negatively impacting on food security and climate...
Improving livelihoods in dryland areas
People of Pampanur cluster are a happy lot with improved yields and incomes. They achieved this by giving attention to harvesting and conserving rain water, the most scarce...
Farmers Diary – Natural capital holds the key
During 1970’s, as a small boy I was witnessing my father’s interaction with the share croppers. They were cultivating finger millet as a mixed crop in the upstream land area and...
Managing drought for mitigating desertification
Degradation of land due to desertification has a serious compounding effect on drought and the people dependent on it. It reduces the chances of the local people to cope with...