LEISA India magazine, published by AME Foundation, is presently reaching more than 12000 readers in India.

Reaching 500 readers in neighboring south Asian countries. It has started as an Indian edition in the year 2010 with the readership of 800. LEISA magazine is recognized as the leading magazine for sharing field based experiences in Low External Input and Sustainable Agriculture. LEISA magazine published by ILEIA, the Netherlands, is being subscribed by around 45000 and expectedly reaching around 2.5 lakh people across the globe (www.ileia.org). Together with ILEIA, AME nurtured interest in sustainable agriculture in South India. Since 1997, they have collaborated in participatory research and distribution of ILEIA newsletter in India. Subsequently, since the year 2000, AME started the production of LEISA India edition. (http://india.leisa.info) LEISA India, is being published in English, with an Indian focus and an international perspective.

The annual average growth of readers has been in the range of 20-30%. The contributors and readers include academics, researchers, farmers, NGOs, government departments, banks etc.

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LEISA India Consortium
Besides, publishing the magazine, AME Foundation in collaboration with ILEIA, has forged a consortium of partners – LEISA India Consortium, to promote enhanced sharing of LEISA experiences. The consortium of willing partners involving large networks of NGOs like MYRADA, GEAG, and LEISA Network, have been involved in promoting LEISA concepts and approaches by bringing about changes at the field level through participatory processes. They also have been documenting and sharing their experiences through various mechanisms and modes.
The partners have been involved in a focused two year documentation and communication programme (2003-05). The programme resulted in enhancing organizational capacities on documentation and sharing, both within the organisations, as well as in the public domain.

Building LEISA Alliances
Given the proportion of farming population in India, the diverse languages and the number of institutions involved in agriculture development, there is a need for intensifying efforts for scaling up dissemination and use of LEISA knowledge. One of the efforts includes building LEISA Alliances, an unstructured group of LEISA enthusiasts, for enhanced adoption of LEISA approaches and intensified sharing of experiences.