Farmer producer organizations as farmer collectives: A case study from India

BASIX’s Experience on SRI in India: Farmer-Financed Extension

Water Gender Indicators in Agriculture: A Study of Horticultural Farmer Organizations in Senegal

This paper intends to contribute to the debate on gender equality and water within the Sustainable Development Goals SDGs 5 and 6. Farmers organizations are often considered key stakeholders whose participation should be fostered to achieve a good water governance in agriculture and irrigation programs. Nonetheless, many water management interventions tackle participation as an instrumental and...

Farmer Ted Goes Natural

We’ve all been given a problem in a calculus class remarkably similar to the following one: Farmer Ted is building a chicken coop. He decides he can spare 190 square feet of his land for the coop, which will be built in the shape of a rectangle. Being a practical man, Farmer Ted wants to spend as little as possible on the chicken wire for the fence. What dimensions should he make the chicken co...

Farmer-suicide in India: debating the role of biotechnology

Indian Biotech opponents have attributed the increase of suicides to the monopolization of GM seeds, centering on patent control, application of terminator technology, marketing strategy, and increased production costs. The contentions of the biotech opponents, however, have been criticized for a lack of transparency in their modus operandi i.e. the use of methodology in their argumentation. Th...

Agricultural growth and the small farmer in India

Agriculture is the way of life in rural areas. People use their own lands for growing different crops such as cereals (rice, wheat, maize), millets (pearl millet, finger millet, jowar), pulses (red gram, black gram, bengal gram), oilseeds (groundnut, soybean, linseed, mustard, rapeseed, sunflower, safflower, castor seed), vegetables (tomato, okra, cucurbits, cole crops, brinjal), horticultural ...