There is an encouraging trend in farmers returning back to traditional practices, that are eco-friendly which provide sustainable production. There is a great need and urgency...
Agroecology – Towards climate resilient food systems
Apart from conserving ecosystem, adopting agro-ecological practices has a potential to generate income. Even if 50% of farmers in a village adopt sustainable agriculture, it...
Reaping multiple benefits from biological crop management
T M Radha and J Krishnan Adopting eco friendly practices and enhancing crop biodiversity has several advantages in terms of soil fertility, pest management, crop yields, costs...
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....
Farm to Systems – Where is our measuring tape?
Besides yield, nutrition and income, a family farmer harvests several other benefits from an agroecologically designed farm. So, we need to have a different set of parameters to...
Participatory knowledge building
In an innovative effort to mainstream locally relevant knowledge to promote sustainable agriculture, DDS is building the capacities of the grassroot professionals. In the...
Livestock rearing and ecological agriculture: Ratnagiri farmers make their choice
Young farmers in Ratnagiri are successfully preserving the unique diversity of the region by integrating small scale agriculture with livestock production. Looking beyond short...
Agroforestry for ecological and economic benefits
Tree cultivation in agroforestry system has the potential to take pressure off extractive harvesting from natural forests, contributing to in-situ conservation, limiting...
The Narayana Reddy Column- Youth in farming
Globalisation and WTO have resulted in the youth of our country losing interest in agriculture and going into cities to earn more money. The villages are becoming poorer and...