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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 9006 - 8047) |

FM 1995 ILEIA Newsletter Vol 11 #2 - 1995-07-19

  • The lure of statistics
  • Diversity of farmers' strategies - Mali
  • Improving network performance
  • Landuse planning combining multicriteria computer models with participatory methodologies
  • High quality experiments
  • Variation: problem or solution?
  • Culture, social relationship and indigenous economics on Sumba, Indonesia
  • Science is not universal
  • Holistic goals in Zimbabwe leads to sustainable development
  • Learning about sustainability

FM 1995 ILEIA Newsletter Vol 11 #3 - 1995-10-19

  • The living mulch of Nepal
  • Unexpected source of income - Niger
  • Aggressive colonizers
  • Initiatives to combat savannization and land degradation in Ghana
  • Soil conservation and weed control
  • Green manures - Brazil
  • Cover crops - Honduras
  • Weed management - trees- Kenya
  • Labor issues - India
  • The yield of weeds
  • Selective weeding
  • Ox-weeders reduce workload

FM 1995 ILEIA Newsletter Vol #4 - 1995-12-19

  • Coping with change in dryland savannah
  • Sustainable agriculture in different environments
  • Food security
  • Watershed development in India through peoples participation
  • Nutrient dynamics and agricultural intensification - Nigeria
  • Legumes for sustainable food production
  • Legumes
  • Farmers in Argentina choose for economic viability
  • Coping with risk and uncertainty
  • Building partnerships

FM 1996 ILEIA Newsletter Vol 12 #1 - 1996-04-19

  • Experiences from the Andes and the Himalayas combined
  • Lameo - Boliva soil conservation
  • Irrigation through reservoirs in Bolivia
  • Burning in hillsides farming in Colombia
  • Diversity in mountain agriculture in northern India
  • Indigenous knowledge re-valued
  • Livestock and soil fertility

FM 1996 ILEIA Newsletter Vol 12 #2 - 1996-07-19

  • Integrated farming systems in humid lowlands
  • Philippine farmer switches over to rice-fish
  • Pigs manage the world's worst weed in India
  • Cambodia aquaculture developments
  • Diversifying rice field systems in Bangladesh
  • Pak Yanto's road to sustainability
  • Capture or culture?
  • Wetland management in Malawi

FM 1996 ILEIA Newsletter Vol 12 #3 - 1996-12-19

  • Assessing sustainability in Burkina Faso
  • Grassroots indicators
  • Facilitating a joint analysis of change in Mexico
  • Perceptions of nature differ among groups in Mexico
  • Biodiversity-based productivity framework developed in India
  • Farmers fenced out in India

FM 1997 LEISA Magazine Vol 13 #1 - 1997-04-19

  • Forging dynamic partnerships
  • RAAK a new participatory methodology
  • Shifting farmers to the centre in R&D relationships, Ghana
  • Learning about partnerships from a four century old irrigation system in Nepal
  • Stakehold identification in natural resource management
  • Dialogue instead of debate - pastoralists and researchers started to learn from each other in Australia
  • Organic farming takes roots
  • Sustainability
  • Mountain farming in Spain

FM 1997 LESHA Magazine Vol 13 #2 - 1997-07-19

  • User-producer tools development
  • Values-based rural develoment
  • Palm sugar
  • Controlling chickens
  • Rats, bats and traps
  • An innovative organic farming
  • Controlling house flies
  • Ecology education in Peru

FM 1997 LEISA Magazine Vol 13 #3 - 1997-10-19

  • Rebuilding lost soil fertility 
  • A tool for quantitative farm analysis
  • Intensification of swidden agriculture in the Philippines
  • Poor soils need organic matter
  • Indigenous green manure in Nepal
  • New Kekulam
  • Recycling household waste in Egypt
  • Biomass transfer

FM 1997 LESIA Magazine Vol 13 #4 - 1997-12-19

  • Integrated pest management in Latin America
  • Developments in crop protection
  • Natural Pest Management in Zimbabwe
  • Chinese rice farmers
  • Integrated rice-duck cultivation in Vietnam
  • Trapping the red hairy caterpillar in India
  • Food security and local production of biopesticides in Cuba
  • Natural insecticide pyretbrum
  • Termite control
  • Gender and integrated pest management

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