Agroecology Stories

From Peril to Power: How Agroecology Helps Women Farmers

Monoculture, Pesticides and Women, Women in Agriculture

“Now I get tired easily,” shares Ms. Hueang Namixay, a 36-year-old woman farmer from Laos, who suffered from pesticide poisoning. A lowland farmer, Hueang has been using the herbicide glyphosate in her four-hectare farm in Namhom Village in Kham District, Xiengkhuang Province, for 17 years to grow maize. She was aware of the perils of […]

Another “-cide” to pesticide

Corporate Control Of Agriculture, Green Revolution, Traditional Sustainable Farming Practices

by Mabi David, PANAP Agroecology in Action It’s no longer debatable how the widespread adoption of chemicals and corporate farming have led to the destruction of our topsoil, the contamination of air and water, the sickness and suicides rampant among stricken farmers, the extinction-level losses to our biodiversity, and near-collapse of our planetary systems. Less […]

Fostering Resilience through Practice: Stories of Bangladesh Farmers

Alternative Farming Systems, Climate Resilience, Organic Farming, Sustainable Agriculture, Women in Agriculture

“Nature no longer behaves as it used to. Over the course of her long life as a farmer, 60-year-old Krishani Rahima Begum of Nayabari village of Singair upazila has witnessed the climate changing in Bangladesh. In the past her country enjoyed six seasons; now there are only three–summer, monsoon, and winter. It’s a massive shift […]

Stories of Laos Model Farmers: Food Sufficiency and Income Stability from Rice

Organic Farming, Sustainable Agriculture, Women in Agriculture

““I had a poor standard of living,” admits Khamphew Khamdengmeuang, a farmer living in Xiengkiew village in Kham district, one of the five districts in the province of Xiengkhouang in Laos PDR, where the Commercial Organic Farming and its Institutionalisation (COFI) program was mounted by Sustainable Agriculture and Environment Development Association (SAEDA) in partnership with […]

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Stories of Laos Model Farmers: Debunking Myths, Discovering Benefits

Organic Farming, Sustainable Agriculture, Women in Agriculture

““I thought I could harvest more crops with minor effects,” admits PhaKaoveu Karjar, a farmer from Dongdan village in the district of Khoun. It was 1995, and the use of chemicals was popular among the farmers then. PhaKaoveu experienced good results in his first year of chemical application, however over the next nine years, he […]

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