Agroecology in Action Newsletter is a bi-monthly bulletin published by PAN Asia Pacific that highlights the grassroots work of International Peopleʼs Agroecology Movementsʼ (IPAM) field learning sites to promote agroecology as a sustainable approach to agriculture and food production and development, in the framework of food sovereignty, ecological and social justice.
Agroecology in Action Newsletter is a bi-monthly bulletin published by PAN Asia Pacific that highlights the grassroots work of International Peopleʼs Agroecology Movementsʼ (IPAM) field learning sites to promote agroecology as a sustainable approach to agriculture and food production and development, in the framework of food sovereignty, ecological and social justice.
In celebration of International Day of Rural Women and 16 Days of Global Action on Agroecology, a discussion between three IPAM field learning sites Support for Women in Agriculture and Environment from Uganda, Gita Pertiwi from Indonesia, and CARITAS Nepal from Nepal was facilitated by Vikalpani Women’s Federation from Sri Lanka, on the important role […]
In How to Grow Green Amaranth, Nasira Habib talks about the importance of native plants and their health benefits. She also guides how to grow chaulai.
“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 […]
PAN Ethiopia’s project coordinator talks about their organic cotton production, moving away from harmful chemicals, and women’s involvement in cotton prodution.
Agroecology in Action Newsletter is a bi-monthly bulletin published by PAN Asia Pacific that highlights the grassroots work of International Peopleʼs Agroecology Movementsʼ (IPAM) field learning sites to promote agroecology as a sustainable approach to agriculture and food production and development, in the framework of food sovereignty, ecological and social justice.
“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 […]
““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 […]
““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 […]
