Besides providing for many of our needs, forests play a pivotal role in providing ecosystem services, ranging from biodiversity conservation to climate regulation. Yet over the...
Participatory Guarantee Systems – A platform for knowledge exchange
The significance and value of local and traditional farmers’ knowledge on improving agricultural practices is gaining more and more recognition. Participatory Guarantee Systems...
Participatory Guarantee Systems – Making organic certification more accessible for small scale farmers
Many farmers’ organizations all around the world and in India contribute to the establishment and promotion of Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS). Particularly appropriate for...
Participatory Guarantee Systems offer alternative certification
Tegan Renner Over the past three decades, organic agriculture has evolved into a global system of third party certification and international trade. This system has seen...
Eco Foot Prints – Using People’s Participation as a Way Forward
Mathew John and Kunal Sharma For millions of organic farmers who earn their livelihoods from cultivating a host of diverse crops, much has changed for the better in the past...