by Team LEISA India | Jun 27, 2022 | Articles, Education, Featured
There needs to be a paradigm shift from a linear to cyclical approach to learning. This can happen when students move towards system thinking and build key competencies by engaging in a learning process, which is rather facilitated and not taught. ‘Going to the field...
by Team LEISA India | Jun 27, 2022 | Articles, Education, Featured
Many passionate farmers are giving back to the society by sharing their knowledge and experience on growing food in an eco-friendly manner. This is how knowledge got passed from generation to generation, traditionally. But, present day farmers are moving a step ahead...
by Team LEISA India | Jul 20, 2018 | Articles, Featured
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 women in Dandafaya not only increased their income and built sustainable...
by Team LEISA India | Apr 13, 2018 | Articles, Featured
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 power of farmers. Most of the rural population...
by Team LEISA India | Apr 13, 2018 | Articles, Featured, Trade, Value addition
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 managing the crop harvest from farm to market, not...
by Team LEISA India | Apr 13, 2018 | Agroecology, Agroecology and Development, Articles, Featured
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 during their annual seed festivals, these 5000 farming families...