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Uplifting the lives of the marginalized communities through collective action and cooperativism: The Kalika Land Rights Agriculture Cooperative Ltd.
An organized cooperative can enable women to access government services and support. The women farmers from the indigenous groups and “so-called”, lower caste, in Kailali District in Nepal have been discriminated against for a long time. They were unable to access support because they live on government lands with no land...
Nepal
2022 - Kalika Land Rights Agriculture Cooperative Ltd
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
De-risking agriculture – Women-led climate resilient farming model
When women are empowered to decide what to grow, what inputs to use, when and where to sell – key shifts happen in agriculture and livelihoods. By empowering women in Marathwada as change-makers in agriculture, the WCRF model promoted resilient livelihoods for farming households while ensuring farming to become an...
India
2022 - Leisa India
دراسة حالة
A journey of struggle and empowerment of women of the dry and arid area of Surendranagar: Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) and Surendranagar Mahila Bal Vikas Mandal (SMBVM)
Women and their needs are still largely unaccounted for, with policies unfavorable to them. Through the formation of women’s groups and associations, women’s issues and needs were made visible in various arenas – community, market, and policy processes. The experience of Surendranagar Mahila Bal Vikas Mandal showed that the needs of women...
India
2022 - Surendranagar Mahila Bal Vikas Mandal (SMBVM)
دراسة حالة
Empowering communities and addressing farming challenges through cooperatives: The Case of Yen Duong Cooperative
Women-led cooperatives have played a role in improving women farmers’ technical know-how, leadership capacities, business skills, and advocacy skills. Women members of Yen Duong Cooperative in Vietnam were trained in agroforestry production, handicrafts making, and tourism and actively participated in advocacy and policy-making activities in their locality. They have successfully...
Viet Nam
2022 - Yen Duong Cooperative
مقال صحفي
Agroecology and Sustainable Smallholder Agriculture: An exploratory analysis with some tentative indications from the recent experience of Natural Farming in Andhra Pradesh
This paper looks at the potential of agro-ecology for farming systems in India in order to achieve sustainable and inclusive development of agriculture in the country. It situates the potential of agro-ecology within the larger structural transformation context of the rural, agricultural and smallholder Indian economy, arguing that the preponderance...
India
2022
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
Building resilience organically
With a little support and guidance, farmers can transform their lives and become resilient to changes in weather and markets. The case of Pitar Sabar shows how a tribal farmer with the support from WOTR, changed the way he farmed and enhanced the income levels, besides becoming a resource person...
India
2022 - Leisa India
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
Building Farm Resilience through Natural Farming – Reflections from Field
Natural farming being recognised as an important pathway for achieving sustainable development goals, a study was undertaken to understand the potential of natural farming as a sustainable agricultural model. The field assessment revealed that natural farming systems contribute highly to the environmental/ecological dimensions of sustainability of farmers while there is...
India
2022 - Leisa India
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
International conference recognizes small-scale producer organizations as agents of resilience
Small-scale forest and farm producers are building climate resilience in their communities and with the right support can make a difference at scale to maintaining forest and farm landscapes in the face of climate change.The message came this week at the close of the International Conference for Sharing and Learning...
Viet Nam
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
For Mekong Delta farmers, diversification is the key to climate resilience
Vietnamese farmers in the Mekong Delta face worsening impacts of climate change. Environmental deterioration threatens the lives and livelihoods of millions of people here. Since 2016, a World Bank project has supported more than one million farmers transition into more climate-resilient and resource-efficient ways of living. The project has also...
India
2022 - Leisa India
موجز في السياسات/ وثيقة في السياسات
Asia-Europe Environment Forum Policy Brief on Circular Food Systems
The Asia-Europe Environment Forum (ENVforum) Annual Conference 2021 focused on Circular Food Systems as possible solutions to reverse climate change. One of the sessions of the Conference was “Agriculture and food”. This session focused on challenges and solutions for implementing the principles of a circular economy in agriculture, in the context of climate...
2022 - Asia-Europe Environment Forum
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
Resilient farming – The one-acre model
Farming can be remunerative even from an acre of land holding, when practiced through natural methods, utilizing natural resources to the optimum. Thammaiah, a farmer in Karnataka shows how small farmers can make a decent living adopting the multi cropping system, through his one acre model.
Mr. Thammaiah of Chowdikatte village,...
India
2022 - Leisa India
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Papua New Guinea
2022 - UN Papua New Guinea
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
Effective Pedagogy and Research perspective
Experiential learning based pedagogy, farmer-centric participatory research and knowledge exchange are essential for promotion of agroecological education.
Way back in 1982, recognising the negative effects of high input agriculture, and link between agriculture, ecology and human dimensions, a few enthusiastic individuals in the Netherlands launched Agriculture, Man, Ecology as an international...
India
2022 - Leisa India
كتاب
Food Insecurity in India's Agricultural Heartland: the Economics of Hunger in Punjab
This book brings to the fore the different dimensions of the deprivation of human capabilities and the intricate relationship between food security and economy, ecology, and state policy within the Indian state of Punjab.
India
2022 - Oxford (UK) Oxford University Press 2022
مقالة
Consumer story ''Planting seeds of liberation: Reflections on Allyship in food systems''
If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.
Lila Watson
It was the harvest festival in January called Sankranti on the land of the Deccan Plateau in the State...
India
2022 - The Barefoot Guide Connection
مقالة
Mushroom hunters "foraging mushrooms with my dad in Jhumlawang''
It was a good day. Sun and cloud were playing hide and seek creating a komorebi (sunbeam)effect in the forest near Syaubaari, Jhumlawang, where my dad and I were looking for edible wild mushrooms. It had rained the night before, so the ground was damp and squishy, giving leeches a chance to...
Nepal
2022 - The Barefoot Guide Connection
دراسة حالة
A journey of struggle and empowerment of women of the dry and arid area of Surendranagar: Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) and Surendranagar Mahila Bal Vikas Mandal (SMBVM)
This case study was developed by Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) with support from the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development and the World Rural Forum.
SEWA, a trade union was established in 1972 in the city of Ahmedabad, Gujarat. It was an offshoot of the Association's Women's Wing of...
2022 - SEWA
فيديو
Healthier crops with good micro-organisms
Mix concentrated E.M. from the farm shop with molasses and water, and let it ferment for a week. You can also make your own solution of good micro-organisms with local materials. You can mix the activated solution with water to use on any crop, to soak your seed or to...
Bangladesh
2022 - Access Agriculture
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
Training videos on agroecology – Putting the power of learning in farmers’ hands
Strengthening agricultural advisory services to make agroecological knowledge and practices available to small and marginal farmers is critical to transition towards agroecology and organic farming. Digital learning tools are a cost-effective way to train farmers on agroecological practices, encourage farmer-led experimentation and local innovation, and upscale agroecology.
Ecological farming is knowledge-intensive,...
India
2022 - Leisa India
دراسة حالة
Empowering communities and addressing farming challenges through cooperatives: the case of Yen Duong cooperative
Women-led cooperatives have played a role in improving women farmers’ technical know-how, leadership capacities, business skills, and advocacy skills. Women members of Yen Duong Cooperative in Vietnam were trained in agroforestry production, handicrafts making, and tourism and actively participated in advocacy and policy-making activities in their locality. They have successfully...
Viet Nam
2022 - AfA
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