Farming Matters | December 2009 During the recent World Summit on Food Security in Rome and the Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen, delegates from all over the world tackled the most crucial problems the world is facing today. Agriculture is at the heart of it all: Farming Matters! For twenty-!ve years, ILEIA has been … Read more SCALING UP

LEISA | September 2009 During the recent World Summit on Food Security in Rome and the Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen, delegates from all over the world tackled the most crucial problems the world is facing today. Agriculture is at the heart of it all: Farming Matters! For twenty-!ve years, ILEIA has been facilitating … Read more WOMEN AND FOOD SOVEREIGNTY

Volume 25 no.2 | June 2009 Small-scale farmers and their support institutions are becoming more convinced that there is little future for them unless they become more entrepreneurial in their approach to farming. Which means that they produce increasingly for markets – local, regional as well as global, and with a profit motive. There’s nothing new … Read more FARMERS AS ENTREPRENEURS

LEISA Magazine | 25.1 | March 2009 Small-scale family farmers live in environments ranging from mountainous, dry areas to lush, tropical forests. Together, they engage in many kinds of small-scale farming systems. All these systems combined harbour and nurture biodiversity. They also safeguard the resilience of agro-ecological systems against natural and human-made disasters. This issue explicitly recognises the value … Read more FARMING DIVERSITY

LEISA Magazine | Volume 24 No.4 | December 2008 Everybody is talking about climate change. It is truly a global concern. It is in the newspapers, on the radio, and many books have already been published. You can read some key findings from recent reports on agriculture and climate change in this issue of LEISA … Read more DEALING WITH CLIMATE CHANGE

LEISA Magazine | Volume 24 No.3 | September 2008 For people sidelined by society, small scale farming can provide opportunities in life. In this issue, we present experiences which show how people facing social stigma, or living with physical disability can grow crops or rear livestock and gain “Respect through farming”. The magazine features many … Read more RESPECT THROUGH FARMING

LEISA Magazine | Volume 24 No.2 | March 2008 This issue looks at how sustainable agriculture practices have developed and spread over time. We show initiatives that have been taken to scale up successful methods and approaches. Equally, the articles in this issue look at the factors that have hindered the spreading of sustainable agricultural … Read more SCALING UP AND SUSTAINING THE GAINS

LEISA Magazine | Volume 24 No.1 | March 2008 As markets for fair and green trade products are expanding, we look here at some of the issues faced by LEISA farmers. The articles in this issue of the LEISA Magazine were chosen to show current practical experiences with fair and green trade, reflecting the variety … Read more TOWARDS FAIRER TRADE

LEISA Magazine | 23.4 | December 2007 As our magazine has regularly shown, there have been many positive pest management experiences during these last 20 years. As a result of a comprehensive IPM approach, farmers have been able to increase their yields and incomes. Many examples have shown a reduced reliance on pesticides, effectively diminishing … Read more ECOLOGICAL PEST MANAGEMENT

LEISA Magazine | 23.3 | September 2007 In recent years there has been a growing interest in the links between food, food production and health. In this issue we present examples of how such links between health issues and agriculture have been addressed in practical ways. There are articles about the use of traditional crops … Read more HEALTHIER FARMERS, BETTER PRODUCTS