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Aquaculture's next frontier?
The document is a brief of showcase of a specific aquaculture innovation. It contains main information on the technique and approach used, scope and scale of application, accessibility and the outcome and benefits of the innovation.
Aquaculture has traditionally been carried out in freshwater and coastal areas. This causes pressures including...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
博文
Economic empowerment of rural women – Through small enterprises
Majority of the rural women are landless. Invariably, they work as farm labourers. Sanskriti Samvardhan Mandal, an NGO has helped women of Sagroli in Maharashtra in empowering them financially by providing the needed credit support in managing their enterprises.
Sagroli, located in Biloli, in Nanded district of Maharashtra, is quite a...
India
2022 - Leisa India
博文
Solar energy models for sustainable farming
Sufficient and timely availability of water is essential to irrigate crops during critical stages of crop growth. This shall ensure improved farm productivity and incomes. However, a critical prerequisite is a reliable energy-based system which enables timely extraction and distribution of water supply. Solar models have shown the way.
In rural...
India
2022 - Leisa India
博文
Making Urban dairies more sustainable
Dependence of mankind on the non-renewable sources of energy such as coal, oil and gases is increasing worldwide. It is time to switch over to readily available, economical, and environment-friendly renewable source of energy like cattle dung, which is plentily available.
Jammu, the city of temples in India, is flooded with...
India
2022 - Leisa India
报告
Women and men in small-scale fisheries and aquaculture in Asia
Barriers, constraints and opportunities towards equality and secure livelihoods
Fisheries and aquaculture contribute to food security and livelihoods of millions of people in Asia. Both women and men are engaged in fisheries and aquaculture. In the past ten years, many actors have worked on raising awareness on women’s contribution as well as promoting gender equality in fisheries and aquaculture....
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
个案研究
Cooperative development as a response to crisis: The Ishker KG Women's Cooperative in Kyrgyzstan
Women farmers continue to be at a disadvantage position with limited access to resources, financial services, and government subsidies, among other things. Aside from farm work, women take care of their children and the elderly. Thus, the multiple crises such as the pandemic, extreme weather events, and increase in agri...
Kyrgyzstan
2022 - Ishker KG cooperative
技术文件
LEISA India Renewable Energy in Agriculture – December 2022 – Issue 24.4
As consciousness and awareness on use of green energy has been rising, we also do come across a lot of initiatives on the ground, either at individual level or community level. To share the ground level initiatives, we decided to present this issue focussing on “Renewable Energy”.
The link between water-energy-agriculture...
India
2022 - Leisa India
个案研究
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
博文
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
个案研究
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)
个案研究
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
Газетная статья
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
博文
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
博文
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
博文
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
博文
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
政策简报/文件
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
博文
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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EU-Streit PNG's news
EU-STREIT PNG'S NEWS - MONTHLY UPDATES May 2022
Papua New Guinea
2022 - UN Papua New Guinea
博文
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
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