Sustainet
Sustainable Agriculture Information Network
Launches
Book on sustainable agriculture launched
Success stories of poverty alleviation can inspire India, change its
face
New Delhi, August 10, 2007: Sustainet-Sustainable Agricultural
Information Network, launched a book "Sustainable Agriculture: A
Pathway out of Poverty for India's Rural Poor" at a city Hotel
today .The book communicates the strong message that, sustainable
agriculture, if replicated on a country-wide basis can provide a means
out of poverty and hunger. The book is a collection of various well
researched and documented studies on how sustainable agriculture can
be a success story for millions of farmers in the country today.
Ghasi Ram was toying with the idea of moving from rural to urban
Rajasthan but his experience with sustainable agriculture helped him
overcome extreme poverty and stay on in his home village. Ghasi Ram is
not an exception to what is increasingly becoming a phenomenon.
His example and many others are part of Sustainable Agriculture: A
Pathway out of Poverty for India's Rural Poor, a book that was
launched here today. The book, which highlights 14 case studies from
nine States across the country, is the result of a Writeshop conducted
by Sustainet India and Sustainet Germany.
The thread that binds the case studies is sustainable agriculture,
which if replicated on a larger basis can be a means out of poverty
and hunger for millions of farmers and their families. They are all
the result of practicing local resource-based technologies which are
low cost, appropriate and replicable in comparison to high input,
expensive technologies promoted by mainstream agriculture.
There are many rural initiatives to promote sustainable agriculture
and the case studies in the book focus on some key areas: Organic
farming, management of Land and water, and new marketing strategies.
It will help address the deepening agrarian crisis, which has seen
thousands of farmers across the country, unable to cope with crisis,
take their own lives.
Sustainable agriculture integrates three main goals: environmental
stewardship, farm profitability and prosperous farming communities but
most of the success stories are rooted to specific locations. "The
analyses and lessons in the book could be applied to a wide variety of
situations not just in India but also in other parts of the world,"
said Sustainet (Sustainable Agricultural Information Network) Project
Office Head Dr. Paul Mathias Braun. He enriched the occasion with his
welcome speech and a presentation on the goals of Sustainet.
About the Project:
Sustainet came into being in 2003 as part of the German federal
government's initiative. Sustainet India is a network of NGOs with a
long-standing experience of sustained agriculture. Sustainet aims to
support the scaling up of examples of good practice in sustainable
agriculture. And the book will be a valuable resource to the country's
policy makers and NGOs, some of whom are in the process of getting it
translated into vernacular languages to be able to inspire more
farmers to embrace sustainable agriculture.
Further information may be had from:
Ms Manasi Gopalakrishnan /9968150668 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Media Contact: Satyajit/9899392940: Radha/9899736745: Monali/9911709012
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