Centre for learning on sustainable agriculture
The Centre for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture, ileia, promotes the exchange of information about small-scale farming all over the world. Through its flagship publication, "Farming Matters", and also through other media, it informs policy makers, researchers, practitioners, educators and farmers, about sustainable, small-scale farming. It offers discussions, background to the news, opinions, research findings and practical examples of how small-scale farming contributes to providing food security, social justice, a healthy environment and development.
Volume 26 - Farming Matters: 2 - Money for farming |
| 2010-06-09 - Over the past decade, microcredit facilities have mushroomed and many groups of small farmers and landless people, notably women have benefited. Microcredit however is often not enough to help farmers build viable and sustainable farms. Farmers who want to invest in making their farm sustainable are faced with the challenge of transition financing. They have to make a serious investment in order to make their farm sustainable. Their land will pay them back for the investment but only after a few years. In the mean time, they have to survive. Banks have standardised products which often do not support farmers who choose to go for ecologically sound practices as these are considered as not economically viable. So where to go for support? Read the articles. |  | |
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THE FUTURE OF FAMILY FARMING - Report Jubilee conference |
 Read the summaries of the keynote speeches, reports of the regional workshops and the debates during ileia’s jubilee conference on the future of family farming and get inspired again.
Read more and download the report here. (PDF 1mb) |
Learning AgriCultures |
 Introducing a new educational series from ILEIA: Seven modules that aim to increase understanding of the principles and processes involved in sustainable small-scale farming.
The series uses a systems-thinking approach, with examples from practical experiences in the field and ample pedagogical support material.
Module 1 - Sustainable small-scale farming, Module 2 - Soil and Water Systems and Module 3 - Cropping systems (interim versions) are now available for downloading. Read more. |
From our readers! |
 "I enjoyed reading your article "Building on Success" in Farming Matters. I agree with the premise of your article that we need to support and manage the endless process of knowledge generation, facilitation and networking involved in what is essentially a spontaneous activity of socio-technical change. I think it is excellent that you have identified this as a focus for ILEIA.”
This is just one of the many letters and e-mails we receive. Interested? Read more. |
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