agriculture

Agroecology as an alternative to India’s failed agrarian system.

The use of modern seeds stands to erode the genetic diversity of local seed varieties in Nepal

Shifting cultivation and shifting identities in Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts.

India’s government is going the ‘agritech’ route while low-input organic farming is better suited to smallholder farming households.

Even as Sri Lanka’s smallholder agriculture dies a slow death, schemes to save the rural economy are only coming from urban intellectuals.

From the Himalaya to Male, there are clear signs that climate change is real.

Corporate monopoly over seeds is not the answer to the global food crisis, but rather an unacknowledged cause of it.

Synthetic pesticides are not only present in our rivers, agricultural fields and groundwater – they are also within our people. We can ban these chemicals, but what is out there is already out there.