by Team LEISA India | May 3, 2016 | Editorial
India’s rural poor are overwhelmingly dependent on agriculture as their primary source of income; the majority are marginal or small farmers, and the poorest households are landless. Rural households typically depend on two types of incomes: farm income which is...
by Team LEISA India | Mar 29, 2016 | Editorial
‘Agro ecological farming can double the food production in ten years while mitigating climate change and alleviating poverty’, said Olivier De Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, emphasizing the need to shift to more eco friendly farming for...
by Team LEISA India | Mar 24, 2016 | Editorial
Keeping livestock is traditional and closely linked to rural culture, indicative of the fact that rural families have always realised the importance of livestock. The central role of livestock in natural resource based livelihood strategies, particularly that of poor...
by Team LEISA India | Feb 26, 2016 | Editorial
Trees have been historically an important component of the farming systems in several parts of India. They have been as part of peasants’ subsistence strategies. They are grown in homesteads, farm boundaries or the field itself. Trees are either planted in conjunction...
by Team LEISA India | Feb 24, 2016 | Editorial
The food production system is under intense pressure. Ecological degradation, population growth, food shortages, climate change, declining productivity, commodity and commercial approach, changing consumption patterns etc., have all resulted in a change, not only in...
by Team LEISA India | Feb 11, 2016 | Editorial
Agriculture remains an important and the only source of livelihood to the majority in developing countries. However, poor people’s access to land is limited and insecure; access by some groups – such as women and indigenous populations – is even more precarious. Along...
