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Magazine article
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 capture impact of an agro-ecological system. Measuring the impacts of agro ecology over several parameters of different kind has encouraged farmers in...
India
2018
Report
Report of the National Workshop on Small-scale Fisheries, Cyclone Ockhi and Disaster Risk Management 29 to 30 May, 2018, Kerala, India
National Workshop on Small-scale Fisheries, Cyclone Ockhi and Disaster Risk Management was held on 28 to 29 May, 2018 at Thiruvananthapuram. The workshop was organised by the International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) Trust with the support of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The...
India
2018 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Book
Cyclone Ockhi: Disaster Risk Management and Sea Safety in the Indian Marine Fisheries Sector
Between 29 November and 3 December, 2017, Cyclone Ockhi devastated hundreds of lives and livelihoods of coastal fishing communities in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, India. This study assesses the impacts of the cyclone on fishing communities and the mechanisms in place at the local, national and international levels to address...
India
2018 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Case study
Farm to systems
In small and remote villages in South Asia, our rich agricultural crop/breed diversity and associated knowledge is slowly getting wiped out and is being replaced by a handful of `high yielding’ and `improved’ crops/breeds. Rampant use of chemicals has led to the death of soil and is poisoning our food...
India
2018 - Deutsche Welthungerhilfe
Journal article
India / Natural Hazards: In the Eye of the Storm
In the wake of tropical cyclone Ockhi, the focus now should be on improving at-sea cyclone preparedness and search-and-rescue co-ordination to save precious lives.
India
2018 - ICSF
Practices
Grape Mundo: an ecosystem for grape farming
“Grape Mundo” is a technology ecosystem that guides grape farmers to do precision and sustainable grape farming to produce high-quality grapes using minimum chemicals, thus lowering the cost. This ecosystem also helps grape farmers sell export quality and residue-free grapes across a huge PAN India market, without any involvement of...
India
2018 - Rta Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Journal
Building Back Better
A workshop on Cyclone Ockhi, which swept through parts of south India, discussed ways to make coastal fishing communities more resilient to natural disasters
India
2018 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Journal article
India/Cyclone Ockhi: A Stitch in Time
Cyclone Ockhi, which hit southern India late last year, brought out the need to empower communities to manage risks through locally owned and locally appropriate approaches
India
2018 - ICSF
Report
Report of the Round Table of Women in Small-scale Fisheries in Goa, 19 February 2017, Panaji, Goa. Organized by International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) Trust with Saad Aangan
The round table was organized by Saad Aangan, a Goa-based gender resource group, in collaboration with the International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (Trust) and was attended by thirty-four participants, all (except one fish farmer) women. The workshop was conducted in Konkani, the language of Goa. The programme commenced with...
India
2017 - Saad Aangan
Blog article
Is an Andhra fishing village being evicted to ‘beautify’ a beach?
A few kilometres from Chirala in Andhra Pradesh, right on the sea shore, is the tiny village of Vadarevu. Usually idyllic, this village is now as tumultuous as the sea, thanks to the threat of eviction that the fisherfolk face.
On Monday, the local police tried and failed to evict nearly...
India
2017
Case study
PGS – enabling organic production system for small holders
Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) have been established to help the hundreds of smallholder farmers in India who are unable to gain cost-prohibitive certifications for organic farming. These systems allow access to a fair and transparent market system and grant farmers a direct stake holding in the supply chain of clean...
India
2017
Blog article
The Teesta Is Dying, But These Communities Are Rallying To Keep It Alive
About 10 years ago, people in the small village of Gajoldoba on India’s stretch of the trans-boundary Teesta river started noticing significant changes in their environment.
Their fields weren’t yielding the same number of crops. The water level in the wells was dropping. And the fish – once so abundant that...
India
2017
Event
Harnessing the Power of Data for the Sustainable Development Goals
Held for the first time in India, the 2017 ICT4D Conference: From Innovation to Impact will bring together public, private and civil society organizations from across the humanitarian and international development community to not only discuss the latest trends in digital inclusion but the wider use of data to support achievement of...
India
2017
Article
SALT farming is a boon for Meghalaya farmers
Growing crops is a challenge in the hilly terrain of Assam-India. To counter this, Sloping Agriculture and Land Technology (SALT) has been introduced as an alternative farming method to the farmers in place of jhum. Farmers are trained on - A-frame or making the contour line by using the A-frame;...
India
2017 - Asian Farmers' Association
Blog article
Why India's farmers want to conserve indigenous heirloom rice
While India was home to more than 100,000 rice varieties only 50 years ago, today more than 80% of the area dedicated to grow rice is planted with hybrid varities.
Thanks to the efforts of about 1,400 farmers in the Koraput region (Odisha state), traditional varieties of "desi dhaan", as they...
India
2017
Blog article
Mainstreaming quinoa beyond Andes
Quinoa, once a staple food of only the indigenous people in the Andes, has become a darling of food aficionados around the world in recent years. So popular it has grown that even some fast food restaurant chains have now dishes and salads with it on their menus. Its exceptional...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Egypt - India - Jordan - Kyrgyzstan - Morocco - Oman - Pakistan - Spain - Tajikistan - United Arab Emirates - Uzbekistan - Yemen
2017 - International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA)
Book
Everyday Experts: How people's knowledge can transform the food system
The People’s Knowledge Editorial Collective
Everyday Experts explains how knowledge built up through first-hand experience can help solve the crisis in the food system. It brings together fifty-seven activists, farmers, practitioners, researchers and community organisers from around the world in 28 original chapters to take a critical look at attempts to improve the dialogue between...
Brazil - Canada - Cuba - India - Iran (Islamic Republic of) - Malawi - Mexico - Peru - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2017 - Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR)
Journal article
Ocean Conference: Learning from the ocean
It was in 2015 that the United Nations declared the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). There are 17 Goals, and SDG 14 deals with marine ‘life below water’, which is is formulated with the aim to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.
India
2017
Case study
Improving food security, nutrition and income of tribal smallholder farmers in Sundagarh District, Odisha, India
The Centre for Integrated Rural and Tribal Development (CIRTD), a long term partner of ActionAid India in Sundargarh district of Odisha, has implemented the project, “Enhancing income and securing the food and nutrition of Small and Marginal Farmers through Promotion of Sustainable Agriculture in Rainfed Region”. CIRTD works predominantly in...
India
2017 - Action Aid India
Magazine article
A Diagnosis of Biophysical and Socio-Economic Factors Influencing Farmers’ Choice to Adopt Organic or Conventional Farming Systems for Cotton Production
Organic agriculture is one of the most widely known alternative production systems advocated for its benefits to soil, environment, health and economic well-being of farming communities. Rapid increase in the market demand for organic products presents a remarkable opportunity for expansion of organic agriculture. A thorough understanding of the context...
India
2017
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