The Marginalisation and Resurgence of Traditional Knowledge Systems in India: Agro-Ecological ‘Islands of Success’ or a Wave of Change?

Gregory, Lachlan; Plahe, Jagjit Kaur; Cockfield, Sandra

doi:10.1080/00856401.2017.1336686

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“…Su modelo inspiró a otros estados a comprometer recursos y voluntad política en aras de aplicar la ZBNF. El apoyo de las políticas gubernamentales constituye un paso positivo e importante para transitar de las "islas de éxito" a su adopción masiva (Gregory et al, 2017). Está por verse cómo se desarrollarán estas próximas intervenciones estatales con el tiempo.…”

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“…Los movimientos en pro de la agricultura sostenible de India históricamente han sido dirigidos y articulados por las organizaciones no gubernamentales (ONG), y por activistas de clase media urbana, más que por movimientos de campesinos (Brown, 2018). Por otra parte, en su mayoría, y a pesar de sus importantes logros, los casos exitosos de agricultura sostenible han seguido siendo "islas de éxito" y no han alcanzado la escala masiva que les permitiría convertirse en una "ola de cambio" (Gregory et al, 2017).…”

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Zero Budget Natural Farming in India – from inception to institutionalization

Khadse

Rosset

2021

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Este documento delinea el crecimiento de la agricultura natural de presupuesto cero (ZBNF, por sus siglas en inglés) en India. Desde sus orígenes como movimiento social dirigido por campesinos en el estado de Karnataka, hasta su institucionalización en un programa estatal en Andhra Pradesh, la ZBNF ha alcanzado una mayor escala, llegando así a cada vez más familias campesinas. Examinamos algunos de los factores clave que desencadenaron su crecimiento y destacamos algunos de los retos y las contradicciones que pueden surgir en el proceso de su institucionalización.

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Zero Budget Natural Farming in India – from inception to institutionalization

Khadse

Rosset

2021

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“…For example, a programme launched in 2003 by the government of Sikkim state in India reduced subsidies for agrochemicals by 10% each year. By 2007-2008, they were eliminated, and by 2009, the sale of all agrochemical products was phased out (Gregory et al 2017). In concert, the state aimed to support the development of a bio-input industry and to develop markets for the organic products of Sikkimese agriculture; however, unfortunately many of these policies were ill-conceived and in practice served to undermine agroecology (Meek and Anderson 2020; see Box 10.1 in Chap.…”

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“…These have reduced farmers’ dependence on a host of industrial-chemical inputs and their levels of debt. In one example, savings from lower expenses on farm inputs allowed 386 out of 487 households surveyed in Andhra Pradesh, India, to reclaim their mortgaged farmland (Gregory et al 2017 ).…”

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In this chapter we examine the importance of systems of economic exchange for agroecology. These include the practices and processes by which agricultural products move from producers to various users and by which agri-food producers acquire inputs that cannot be produced on the farm. We review the importance of traditional systems of exchange (such as informal markets and barter systems), subsistence (or family and community self-provisioning) and ‘nested markets’ that are embedded in democratic social relations for agroecology. These markets thicken networks of solidarity and relations of reciprocity in territories. Nested markets value the ecological, social, economic and political functions and outputs of agroecology and support the development of trust-based networks. Regrettably, mainstream food markets favour large volumes and standardization and exclude most agroecological producers.

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“…Movements for sustainable alternatives of chemical based agriculture have substantiated that India can overcome and improve the present emaciated scenario. Although it is sceptical as most of the searched alternatives instead of spreading to grass root level, remain at the place of origin as topical wave of change [2] and do not connect the peasants in true sense [3], still some of them enlighten the hope of recuperation of moribund agriculture. A recent addition to the list of curers is zero budget natural farming (ZBNF).…”

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Zero Budget Natural Farming in India: Aiming Back to the Basics

Biswas

2020

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Crisis of Indian agriculture is very pertinent at this moment as green revolution is gradually losing its hope. Excessive, pointless exploitation of broods of green revolution has left bad footprints on country’s food security and environmental safety. With the motto to ensure food security by reviving Indian agriculture in environmentally safe way as well as to release farmers from debt cycle and suicides, zero budget natural farming (ZBNF) has come in the picture, which discards uses of all the chemical farming inputs and relies on natural way of farming i.e. rejuvenating soil and crop health through its own practices (Jivamrita, Bijamrita, mulching, soil aeration, intercropping, crop diversification, bunds, bio-pesticides etc.). ZBNF movement right now is the most popular agrarian movement which begun in 2002 in Karnataka and later successfully spread in many states (specially, of South India) of the nation through numbers of trainings, demonstrations and various promotional activities. Successful outcomes from farmers’ fields of south Indian states like Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka etc. are encouraging and grabbing attention of farmers, public and private organisations towards ZBNF in recent times. Yet, various controversies regarding its transparency, inadequate information, efficacy, practices, idealisms, even the term ‘zero budget’ etc. have agglutinated around ZBNF over the years since it debuted. Critics in fact have cited several references of drastic yield reductions with ZBNF practices in many places. Adequate scientific evaluation or monitoring of ZBNF’s successes or failures through multi-locational trials is now therefore the needful before allowing or restraining its run in Indian agriculture.

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The Marginalisation and Resurgence of Traditional Knowledge Systems in India: Agro-Ecological ‘Islands of Success’ or a Wave of Change?

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Zero Budget Natural Farming in India – from inception to institutionalization

Zero Budget Natural Farming in India – from inception to institutionalization

Domain C: Systems of Economic Exchange

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