Agro-biodiversity is the most important requisite for having a healthy and strong regional food system. It is genetic diversity that allows regional food systems to be...
Supporting locally determined food systems
The role of local organizations in farming, environment and people’s access to food Localized food systems provide the foundation for people’s nutrition, incomes, economies and...
Eco-farming addresses hunger, poverty and climate change
Agriculture must be redirected to environmentally sound, socially just production methods to address the food and energy crises, hunger, poverty and climate change, reports...
Women and Food Sovereignty
Even during the days when men used to go to the forests hunting animals and collecting tubers and fruits, women used to grow tubers and food crops in their backyards. So the...
From food security to food sovereignty – Autonomous community level production systems show the way
P V Satheesh The much touted progress in food production in this country in the last couple of decades has been fuelled just by two crops, rice and wheat (the so called `fine'...
Under utilised crops and their role in subsistence agriculture
Vanaja Ramprasad and Nada Gowda The advent of green revolution also had its negative effects in the form of genetic erosion of a wide variety of food crops. These crops, also...
Neglected millets that save the poor from starvation
Sankappa is a small farmer owning three hectares of dry land in Vittalpura village of Bellary district in Northern Karnataka, India. This village is situated in the semi-arid...