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ILEIA’s contribution to upscaling agroecology

  • Since December 1984 ILEIA produced 127 issues of Farming Matters
  • ILEIA collaborated in magazine making with twelve regional partner organisations
  • Together the magazines are produced one global, five regional and seven local language editions and in eleven languages
  • The magazines are read in every country of the world (according to Google)
  • Together they reach (substantially) more than a million readers per quarter, in digital and paper format
  • The total production cost per magazine per reader is less than one Euro
  • Since 1984 ILEIA collaborated with at least 2000 authors who contributed articles to Farming Matters
  • The outreach of their articles was up to 100 times higher than they would have got through a scientific journal
  • About 50 editors worked in ILEIA since 1984
  • Lastly, ILEIA worked with dozens of farmer philosophers, champions of agroecology, SRI, NPM, FMNR, and so on… Inspiring people whose contribution to sustainable development cannot be captured in simple figures and numbers.

136 Issues in this Publication (Showing issues 8046 - 8036) |

FM 1998 LESIA Magazine Vol 14 #1 - 1998-07-19

  • Challenging water scarcity
  • Irrigation development - Peru
  • The challenge of organising catchment councils
  • Saurasbtra's water insurer
  • Water resource management
  • Improved irrigation efficiencies in Tunisian oases
  • Bridging gaps in water and labour supply
  • Transferred technology in a basket of options
  • Vetiver
  • Farmers' innovations in land and water management
  • Drip irrigation for vegetable gardens
  • Improved forages benefit Ethiopian farmers

FM 1998 LEISA Magazine Vol 14 #4 - 1998-12-19

  • Agricultural trade
  • The organic market
  • Fair trade and trade development
  • Trade opportunities
  • Strategies to commercialise agroforestry products
  • Sustainable chocolate
  • Organic agriculture
  • The weakest go to the wall
  • Sustainable agriculture needs sustainable markets
  • Green market
  • Marketing organic vegetables
  • Marketing through self help groups
  • Reciprocity for life securityAg

FM 1999 LEISA Magazine Vol 15 #1-2 - 1999-09-19

  • Participatory Technology Development
  • The Phillippines
  • Ghana
  • Peru
  • India
  • Integrated Soil Management

FM 1999 LEISA Magazine Vol 15 #3-4 - 1999-12-19

  • Seeds for agrobiodiversity
  • Collaboration
  • Biodiversity i agriculture
  • Genes
  • Seed shortages threaten organic farming
  • Bean Seed systems
  • Genetic variability in rice
  • Seed selection
  • Genetic resources conservation
  • Seed fairs
  • Andean tubers

FM 2000 LEISA Magazine Vol 16 #1 - 2000-03-20

  • Communities combatting desertifications
  • The UN Convention to combat desertification
  • Cattle and cultivators management
  • Water harvesting
  • Harvesting the monsoon
  • Orchard development
  • National strategies for integrated soil fertility management in Africa
  • Strategic Environmental Analysis

FM 2000 LEISA Magazine Vol 16 #2 - 2000-07-20

  • Grassroots innovations for survival
  • Farmer Innovation in the South Pacific
  • Forging partnerships with innovative farmers in Tanzania
  • Sowing maize in pits
  • Chains of innovation by farmers in Cameroon
  • Devil's tie bedevils water: am Irob innovation
  • How communities assess local innovators
  • Gafsa regional radio
  • Innovation by Tunisian women in dryland farming
  • Three models of extension by farmer innovators
  • Farmer innovation

FM 2000 LEISA Magazine Vol 16 #3 - 2000-09-20

  • Fallow management
  • Nutrient banks or nutrient access
  • Buhid shifting cultivators adapt land use
  • Analog forestry
  • Regenerative analog agroforestry in Brazil
  • Marketing of forest and agricultural products
  • Sustainable agriculture on the forest margin
  • Livestock and forage management in stablising shifting cultivation
  • Monoculture or polyculture?

FM 2000 LEISA Magazine Vol 16 #4 - 2000-12-20

  • Monocultures towards sustainability
  • Soybeans for dairy products
  • Ecologisation of soybean production
  • Rice wheat
  • No-tillage rice wheat cultivation
  • SRI genetic diversity and disease control
  • How to grow winter wheat
  • Monocultures
  • Ecologising rice-based systems in Bangladesh
  • Organic cotton
  • Organic farming - China
  • From sugarcane monoculture to agro-ecological village
  • Farmer field schools for ecological potato production in the Andes

FM 2001 LEISA Magazine Vol 17 #1 - 2001-04-20

  • Resilience to disaster
  • Resilience in farm level food security
  • Farmers' responses to reduce the risks of drought
  • Trees for semi-nomadic farmers
  • Enset, the tree against hunger
  • Underground storage of sorghum
  • African farmer
  • Effective women's development
  • Far from all oil palm turmoil
  • Measuring farmers agroecological resistance to hurricane Mitch
  • Reducing food poverty with sustainable agriculture
  • Supporting community seed multiplication
  • Understanding local adaptation of tools in a relief situation
  • Introducing new crops in a conflict situation
  • Organic cotton to mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS

FM 2001 LEISA Magazine Vol 17 #2 - 2001-07-20

  • Trade liberalisation
  • Causes of rural poverty
  • Loss of the local and spectres of the global
  • Community based organic farming
  • Traditional mixed farming system
  • Catalysing change in Ladakh
  • Strengthening local economies and community identify
  • Family agriculture and globalisation
  • Farming economically

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