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This website shares information on sustainable family farming. Our main publication is the
LEISA Magazine. Success stories from small-scale farmers are often hard to find. They do exist, and there is much to be learnt from them. They can help improve productivity, generate income, and empower farmers. The
LEISA Magazine global edition finds and publishes these stories.
Call for articles: Rural entrepreneurship Issue 25.2
Small scale farm families, be they extended, nuclear or female-headed, find it increasingly hard to survive on farming alone. Farming may provide at least part of a family’s needs for food, but farmers also need cash: their children are going to school, they incur medical expenses, or they need specific inputs. The problem they all face is that opportunities for off-farm employment in rural areas are limited. Out migration to urban centres in search of work is a very widespread strategy...
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Deadline for submissions: 1 March 2009. Read more.LEISA Magazine, volume 24: 4 - Dealing with climate change |
| 2008-12-18 - Everybody is talking about climate change. It is truly a global concern. It is in the newspapers, on the radio, and many books have already been published. You can read some key findings from recent reports on agriculture and climate change in this issue of LEISA Magazine. It is also useful to know what is being done, on a practical level, to combat its effects. So, we have put together some field experiences, to bring you ideas and insights from the small-scale farmers' perspective. Further reading can be found, as always, in the Sources section. Read the articles. |  | |
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