Friday, 20-07-2018
The New Peasantries Rural Development in Times of Globalization, 2nd Edition Jan Douwe van der Ploeg, 2018, Routledge, 312 pages, ISBN: 9781138071315 When first published in 2008, The New Peasantries...
Friday, 20-07-2018
The Development Trap How Thinking Big Fails the Poor Adam D. Kiš, 2018, Routledge, 172 pages, ISBN: 9781138574564 Poverty is an entrenched, intractable problem that will never be entirely eradicated....
Friday, 20-07-2018
Nirmala Adhikari Consumption of vegetables produced through biological means has improved the health of communities in Dandafaya village in Nepal. Coming together and producing organic vegetables as a group, the...
Friday, 13-04-2018
While majority of family farmers produce food primarily for home consumption, yet they struggle to market the little surpluses that they have. There aren’t any niche markets for agroecological produce....
Friday, 13-04-2018
A small practice like grading and sorting at the farm level has resulted in farmers reaping rich benefits in Uttarakashi district. Besides value addition, collectivisation efforts further enhanced the bargaining...
Friday, 13-04-2018
By organizing themselves into a Farmer Producer Company, the farmers in Koraput district in Odisha are handling processing, value addition and collective marketing of horticulture produce. With enhanced capacities in...
Friday, 13-04-2018
Strongly believing in diversity, around 5000 farmers in Kerala have been preserving and nurturing seed diversity, over years. Exchanging and conserving not only seeds but also knowledge associated with it...
Friday, 13-04-2018
Nahari is an initiative connoting tribal women led traditional indigenous food sales corner set up successfully by BAIF in villages of South Gujarat. The concept of community owned and operated...