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Awareness, knowledge and capacity building on establishing Community Seed Banks

8Aug

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Awareness, knowledge and capacity building on establishing Community Seed Banks

Farida Akhter A training workshop was organised by Zan va Zamin (Women and Earth) and National Republican Centre of Genetic Resources of The Tajik academy of Agricultural Sciences, Tajikistan on awareness, knowledge and capacity building on establishing community seed banks during 21-24 June, 2019 at Sanatorium Shaambari-Saturn, Tajikistan. (Please read full Report in pdf file) Zan va Zamin is a public organization in Tajikistan operating since 1999 working to guarantee access to the land for the women in rural areas and on preservation of traditional knowledge and agro-biodiversity in the communities of the mountainous region of Tajikistan. Tajikistan is a newly independent country from the Soviet Union. As a mountain region with its peculiar geographical and climatic situa...

8May

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Biodiversity, Knowledge and Culture

Seed, Agriculture and Life

Farhad Mazhar and Nayakrishi Andolon Summary of the speech of Farhad Mazhar delivered to Nayakrishi farmers on 12 April, 2019 in Ridoypur Biddaghor, Tangail. Nayakrishi Andolon is now known to the world as a strong farmers’ movement in Bangladesh. Those who work with farmers for preservation of seeds, biodiversity and environment are friends of Nayakrishi. Now people around the world are trying to find ways towards pesticide-fertilizer free agriculture, or ways to rebuild bio-organic foundation of agriculture. The future of agriculture is bound to rely on life-affirming biodiversity-based farming. Everyone understands the simple fact that no one will survive by poisoning our earth and particularly food with pesticides and chemicals. Unfortunately our farmers are falling into ...

Nayakrishi Beez Shongho: Training on Challenges of Seed Conservation

11Jun

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Nayakrishi Beez Shongho: Training on Challenges of Seed Conservation

Nayakrishi Andolon || Monday 11 June 2018 Healthy local seed is the key to ensure the natural and bio-productive foundation of the community. Nayakrishi Seed Network organized a training program to operationalize this principle of Nayakrishi Seed Network in Ridoypur Biddaghor, Tangail, during 13 to 15 May, 2018. The objectives were sharing the experiences of management and operation of the Community Seed Wealth Centers (CSWC) and the Seed Huts(SD) and identify strategic conceptual questions for learning by solving problems and on management issues. The anticipated outcome was to develop practical strategies to strengthen farmer's seed system. The specific objective was further improving the technical and organizational aspects of collection, maintenance and use of...

Exhibiting Seed as Farmers’ Knowledge Practice

1Apr

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Exhibiting Seed as Farmers’ Knowledge Practice

Farida Akhter Seed exhibition in Lalon festival The 'Sadhushongo', the congregation of the saintly practitioners of wisdom and intitiated by Fakir Lalon Shah as the "Gour Purnima" festival is an attraction for common people and for farmers. Cheuria, in the District Kushtia of Bangladesh, obtains a festive mood during the three Full-moon days with hundreds of thousands of people coming from all around the country as well as from across the border. This is also an opportunity for the Nayakrishi farmers to invite people attending the festival and demonstrate their art and wisdom of biodiversity-based ecological agriculture very much in tune with the spirituality of the occasion. This year, the festival was held from 28 February to 2nd March 2018. Nayakrishi farmers from Natore, Tan...

12Nov

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Stories of Nayakrishi Farmers

Seed is our heart: Rina Begum

Nayakrishi Andolon Rina Begum (38), Village: Mamudpur, Union: Atia, Upazila: Delduar, District: Tangail They have two acres of cultivable land. They have been farming on their own land Rina said, I used to attend agricultural and other household activities with my parents so long I was with them before my marriage with Mainuddin Miah. My major involvements there included seed sowing, post harvest processing and storage of seeds. I also enjoyed rice husking with my mother. After marriage I was happy to see the same set of agricultural environment in my husband’s residence. My husband has two acres of cultivable land. He cultivates his own land. I learnt the art of agriculture from my mother.. I am responsible for maintenance of Nayakrishi Seed Hut seeds of different crops ...

10Nov

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About Nayakrishi Andolon

Nayakrishi Andolon CULTIVATING ANANDA, PLANTING THE SEED OF JOY The biodiversity-based ecological agricultural movement of the farmers of Bangladesh "We believe..." : the Nayakrishi principle We believe that the possibility for a joyful living is never exhausted. Ecological agriculture can show the simple path to enjoy our lives. In bangla the word for joy is ‘ananda’: it is a beautiful and nuanced word and carries distinctly very deep and spiritual meaning in local vernacular over and above its Sanskrit origin. The word 'ananda' highlights the ecstasy of living in harmony with the 'present' ('বর্তমান'). Major saints of Bengals were critical of both so-called 'spiritual' or 'materialist' understanding of the world, a binary they tried to critically avoid. T...

Nayakrishi Seed Network; Seed and Genetic Resource Conservation

8Nov

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Nayakrishi Seed Network; Seed and Genetic Resource Conservation

Nayakrishi Andolon || Sunday 08 November 2015 The Nayakrishi Andolon (New Agricultural Movement) of Bangladesh is a movement for biodiversity-based ecological agriculture. It is based on simple principles like no use of pesticides and chemicals, no external input of fertilizers, composting and improved soil management and practice of mixed cropping and crop rotation for pest management and risk reduction. Mixed cropping is also crucial to increase productivity through management and production of biodiversity. Shifting away from the narrow accounting of quantitative yield of a single monoculture crop to measuring the systemic value of the total performance of a farm, is the key to the economic success of the Nayakrishi Andolon. The central approach of the initiative squarely lies i...

12Mar

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Nayakrishi Andolon

Nayakrishi & Green Deal

Farida Akhter A Nayakrishi Perspective on New Green Deal Introduction Global Green New Deal is on the road to make growth look green. How green it is for the southern countries; is an extremely important question. Policy Brief of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP March 2009)) on Global Green New Deal (GGND) is about the "worst financial and economic crisis'' and raises the question whether the response of financial stimulus of US$3 trillion globally is sustainable. UNEP recommends a green stimulus of 1% of global GDP (approx. 750 billion), which is only one-fourth of the total proposed fiscal stimulus could provide a critical mass of green infrastructure "needed to seed a significant greening of the global economy". However, the focus of the green stimul...