NABARD is set up by the Government of India as a development bank with the mandate of facilitating credit flow for promotion and development of agriculture and integrated rural...
Interview – Victor M. Toledo
"Agroecology is an epistemological revolution" Interview: Diana Quiroz Victor M. Toledo is a Mexican ethnoecologist and social activist at the National Autonomous University of...
“We know what to do”
Interview: Mireille Vermeulen Next to his work at the Millennium Institute, Mr Herren is co-chair of the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and...
Communities are smart enough to make the right choices
Interview: Laura Eggens Since the mid-1990s, the International Land Coalition (ILC) has been working to promote equitable and secure access to land for poor men and women in...
Fighting for land rights
A case of Juang and Bhuyan adivasis in Orissa Land and forest resources are the core of survival for many tribal communities. While fighting for their land rights, Juang and...
“We can talk about a paradigm shift”
Rio+20 has sparked international attention to sustainable agricultural development, but this has been a point of attention for many people for years. An agricultural sociologist,...
We are organised like a pyramid
As a farmer, the newly appointed FAO Special Ambassador for Co-operatives, Elisabeth Atangana, is familiar with farmers’ organisations at many different levels. She is president...
Interview with Chris Reij – Evidence of success
Working as a sustainable land management specialist at the Centre for International Cooperation of the Free University in Amsterdam, and as a Senior Fellow at the World Resources...
“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...