ILEIA Newsletter Vol. 11 No. 3 p. 2

Dear readers

editorial

On page 34, you may read an update on ILEIA’s exciting new activities. Starting with this year’s December issue, we hope to share with you what we learn together with our partners in Ghana, Peru and the Philippines. We hope that at the same time, you will continue to share with us what you learn. The ILEIA Newsletter remains a platform for discussion and sharing experiences.

In the next three issues, the dryland savanna area of Ghana, the high mountain valleys of Peru and the lowland floodplains of the Philippines will be the pilot sites for our learning. By complementing this with your contributions to the Newsletter, we hope to broaden our learning base. Experiences and information from other regions will get ample attention. We see this focus on the three "pilot sites" as a chance to develop participatory methods for development of sustainable agriculture. We also hope that working closely together with partner organisations in preparing the Newsletter will improve its quality.

This issue of the Newsletter covers a problem every farmer faces: weeds. The articles show that this theme is very diverse and touches upon problems which are at the root of unsustainable agriculture: e.g. large-scale, high-input technology packages, soil and forest degradation, labour division and the erosion of knowledge on the diversity of species. Beside information on traditional use of "weeds", articles present very interesting ways of solving weed problems. When comparing the different, sometimes contradictory approaches presented one feels an urge for further discussion. ILEIA invites you to join this discussion. Please write us your comments and your own experiences!

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