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ILEIA Newsletter - LEISA Magazine - Farming Matters

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 8035 - 8024) |

FM 2001 LEISA Magazine Vol 17 #3 - 2001-10-20

  • Scaling up social development
  • Scaling up natural resources management
  • From zero tillage to conservation agriculture
  • Scaling up sustainable
  • Scaling up landcare in Philippines
  • Scaling up fallow management innovations
  • Scaling up development in agricultural settlements
  • Pond farming
  • Wadi model

FM 2001 LEISA Magazine Vol 17 #4 - 2001-12-20

  • Genetic engineering
  • Biotechnology
  • GMO-free breeding for organic agriculture
  • SRI
  • The push-pull system
  • GM soybeans
  • Organic cotton production
  • Plants protecting other plants
  • Farming futures in India

FM 2002 LEISA Magazine Vol 18 #1 - 2002-04-20

  • Livestock production
  • Livestock Revolution
  • Livestock strategies in Bolivia
  • Climate-soil-pasture-cattle interactions in Brazil
  • Integrated systems
  • Dry rivers
  • Zero grazing in Kenya
  • Cuban experience in integrated farming
  • Llam production in Bolivia
  • Dutch dairy farmers
  • Predatory ants

FM 2002 LEISA Magazine Vol 18 #2 - 2002-07-20

  • Agricultural extension
  • The ICT gloval plans 
  • Networking in sub Saharan Africa
  • Farmer to farmer radio for Dekhon farmers in Tadjikistan
  • Internet in the South
  • Linking farmers through radio
  • Using the Internet for advocacy

FM 2002 LEISA Magazine Vol 18 #4 - 2002-12-20

  • The feminisation of agriculture and the implications for maize development in China
  • New tools for Romanian women farmers
  • Indian women farmers
  • Bitter cassava and women
  • Women and livestock
  • Gender mainstreaming
  • Developing camel products
  • Small change crops
  • Economic change and gender role

FM 2002 LEISA Magazine Supplement - 2002-03-20

  • Managing agroecosystems
  • Ecological Millenniium
  • An ecosystem approach to health
  • Agriculture and human health
  • Ecology of mycotoxins in maize and groundnuts
  • Ecohealth case studies
  • An emerging consensus on ecosystems and human health

FM 2003 LEISA Magazine Vol 19 #1 - 2003-03-20

  • Fundamental elements of a Farmer Field School
  • PTD practitioners
  • Field schools for Kenyan dairy farmers
  • Farmer Life Schools
  • Community forest management and FFS
  • Evaluation in FFS
  • Picturing impact
  • The Egyptian experience with FFS
  • The greening of self help groups
  • Gender field schools
  • Farmer schools
  • FFS for tree crops

FM 2003 LEISA Magazine Vol 19 #2 - 2003-06-20

  • Improving soil moisture with conservation agriculture
  • Soil management in semi-arid savannas
  • What we have learned
  • Drought-proofing villages in Gansu province
  • Spherical water tanks
  • Managing water together
  • Reflecting on farm pond development
  • Farmer innovations in water harvesting
  • Holding the rain
  • Farming where there's no water
  • Flood control in Taiwan
  • Growing rice on raised beds

FM 2003 LEISA Magazine Vol 19 #3 - 2003-09-20

  • Land tenure and resource access in West Africa
  • Securing access to water in Ngurunit
  • Lake Mweru is our bank
  • Accessing livelihoods through shared farming
  • Brazilian land
  • Sherkolle Refugee Camp
  • Forest access: policy and reality in Kafa, Ethiopia
  • Water volunteer
  • Arvari Sansad:  the river parliament
  • Traditional water management in Bali
  • Community consultation and national lobbying in South Africa
  • Recording land rights at Ekuthuleni
  • Food production and HIV/AIDS

FM 2003 LEISA Magazine Vol 19 #4 - 2003-12-20

  • Little bugs, big problems
  • Nitrogen fixation on a national scale
  • From soil erosion to soil quality
  • Healing the earth - an Ethiopian story
  • Understanding traditional terracin
  • Adoption of green manure and cover crops
  • Kick-starting legumes
  • Bioremediation:  decontaminating polluted soils
  • Using weed to fight weed
  • Indigenous fodder trees for rehavilitation
  • Agroecological restoration in Guangdong
  • Farmer Field School on nutrient management
  • Shelter bets and farmers' needs
  • Moving in sand and time

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