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Article du bulletin d’information
Profile: TapasiDolui - Fisherwoman from West Bengal, India Leading the struggle of fisherwomen in Tangrachar
From child bride and adolescent mother to community leader, the journey of 48-year--old TapasiDolui, President of the women’s wing of Dakshinbanga Matysajibi Forum (DMF), a registered trade union of fisherfolk in West Bengal, India, though daunting and full of challenge, is an inspiration to women everywhere...
India
2019 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Article du bulletin d’information
Yemaya Recommends: Fished! The Fisher Women of Mumbai
Directed by Daya Gupta; Duration 19 min 28 sec; Language: English. This short video gives a bird’s-eye view of the lives of Koliwomen. The Kolis are a traditional fishing community from Mumbai, India – one of the original inhabitants of this island city of mostly migrants. The women form a formidable...
India
2019 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Article de revue spécialisée
Obituary / Fisher Leader: Remembering Rambhau
An energetic and committed worker for the cause of fishers, he was a lighthouse for the fishworkers’ movement
India
2019 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Article de revue spécialisée
India: Some Grains of Salt
India’s 2019 Draft National Policy on Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture is an ambitious effort but limited in depth and vision
India
2019 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Rapport
The Mainstreaming of Organic Agriculture and Agroecology in the Himalaya Region
Policy Contexts in Bhutan, India and Nepal
The Mainstreaming of Organic Agriculture And Agroecology in the Himalaya Region: Adequate policies that advance the transition towards sustainable agriculture and food systems to ensure healthy food for all, to overcome social and economic inequalities and to protect our environment, climate, and biodiversity, are urgently needed. After highlighting the world’s...
Bhutan - India - Nepal
2019 - IFOAM – Organics International
Article de revue spécialisée
Natural Disasters: A Heavy Price
The cyclonic wind that swept through the shores of the Indian state of Odisha in the wake of Cyclone Fani have razed the livelihoods of many fisherfolk
India
2019 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Article de revue spécialisée
India / Fish Culture: Welcome, JOHAR!
A World Bank-funded loan project has been developed in the Indian state of Jharkhand to enhance and diversify household incomes for targeted beneficiaries through fish culture
India
2019 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Article de blog
Inde: l'agriculture bio à grande échelle
A la veille des résultats des élections législatives, nous verrons comment l'Inde est un laboratoire d'initiatives écologiques, notamment dans le domaine de l'agriculture. Même si le modèle dominant reste l'agro-chimie, de nombreux États misent sur la permaculture, l'agro-foresterie et l'agriculture biologique à grande échelle en réaction aux ravages sanitaires et...
India
2019
Projet
Resilience through biodiverse cropping and millet recipes driven by Indian women network
This project is currently being implemented in the North of India since 2018 and focuses mainly on female smallholder farmers. The scope is to strengthen resilience through biodiverse cropping and seed system and broaden the type of crop produced in this region. The project is particularly in line with the...
India
2018 - Agroecology Coalition
Article
SRI farming enhances paddy produce of women farmers in Uttar Pradesh
SEWA, AFA member and MTCP2 national implementing agency in India, conducted SRI training for women farmers in Uttar Pradesh, India. Two of the participants applied what they learned from the training despite the risks, and their efforts paid off when the yield of their paddy fields increased from their usual...
India
2018 - Asian Farmers' Association
Article
Reacquisition of Tata Singur Land by Peasants and CSOs
Singur, located in Hooghly district of West Bengal, came into the limelight for its peasants’ movement in 2006. The government acquired 1,253 acres (500 hectares) of multi cropping agricultural land and leased it at a highly subsidized rate to MNC Tata through the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (a state...
India
2018 - Asian Farmers' Association
Article de blog
Can We Improve Public Extension Services Using Corporate Social Responsibility Funds?
In October 2018, I gave a presentation on Seizing and Scaling Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) for Improving Public Extension Services at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS) at Jeonju in the Republic of Korea.
India
2018
Article du bulletin d’information
India: Ships of hope
Innovative boat clinics bring health and hope to thousands of men, women and children, among India’s poorest, who live along the mighty Brahmaputra river. As the monsoon rages, floodwaters ravage the remote island of Lamba Sapori in Dhemaji district in the northeastern state of Assam in India. Trapped in their waterlogged...
India
2018 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Article du bulletin d’information
Profile: Fish, ponds and empowered lives - Under Suman Singh’s leadership, women in Madhubani, India
Under Suman Singh’s leadership, women in Madhubani, India, gain greater control over their lives. Women in inland fisheries in the Madhubani district of Bihar, India, started organizing way back in the year 1999, first registering a district level fisherwomen’s cooperative, and then cooperatives at the block or sub-district level throughout Madhubani....
India
2018 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Article du bulletin d’information
Film: In Ockhi’s wake
30th November 2017. While scientific terms for it were still being confirmed and relayed on land, hundreds of fishworkers at sea were already hit by the violent terror of a deadly cyclonic storm. More than 300 lives were lost, either battling Ockhi, or in the deathly silence after—tragic conquerors of...
India
2018 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Article de revue spécialisée
Weather/Forecasting: A Fishers’ Forecaster
Action research by the University of Sussex is bringing fishermen and scientists together to track wind, and waves and save lives. Seen from the air, Thiruvananthapuram, the capital city of Kerala state in south India, looks like a magic carpet – a long strip of golden sand separating a vast green...
India
2018 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Étude de cas
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
Article de revue spécialisée
Profile: Dream Big, the Sea is the Limit: K.C. Rekha: Seagoing Fisherwoman from Kerala, India
Taking a road less travelled is not easy. Sometimes the whole of society stands against you. But no such fear deterred Rekha K.C. of Koorkenchery, a village in the Thrissur district of Kerala, India, the first woman in the country to go fishing in the deep waters of the outer...
India
2018 - ICSF
Article de revue spécialisée
India: Beach Profiling for Community Resilience
Women and men in fishing communities in South India work together to generate important beach related data. India’s 7,500 km coastline is a hotbed of transformation. The ‘Territorial Sea’, where fishing is allowed, provides an exclusive economic zone in the ocean, 60 per cent the size of its land area....
India
2018 - ICSF
Article de revue spécialisée
Yemaya Recommends: Film - Women at the Water’s Edge: Lives of women in climate changed Sunderbans
The Indian poet, Bhupen Hazarika’s soul-stirring composition ‘O Ganga Boicho Keno (Oh Ganges, why do you flow?),’ inspired by Paul Robeson’s “Ol’ Man River”, plays as we see footage of communities facing irrecoverable loss of their homes, lands and assets by an aggressively advancing river.Women at the Water’s Edge is...
India
2018 - ICSF
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