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| Documentation for change - Editorial | 4-5
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| ILEIA editorial team |
| More than just describing a case, the aim of a documentation process is to build new knowledge. There is still a lot to learn about the techniques, methods, interactions and science involved in ecolog... |  |
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| Documentation: an effective tool in farmer field schools | 6-9
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| Eefje den Belder, Don Jansen, Martin Garcia |
| Approaches such as Farmer Field Schools and Participatory Technology Development aim to promote sustainable development through learning processes based on self-discovery activities and meetings in th... | |
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| Building documentation and communication capacities | 10-12
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| K.V.S. Prasad, T.M. Radha |
| TOgether with many other NGOs, the AME Foundation in India has been working on ways to improve the sustainability and productivity of the agricultural and natural resources of rural communities in the... | |
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| Documentation of animal genetic resources: the LIFE method | 13-15
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| Ilse Köhler-Rollefson, Hanwant Singh Rathore |
| Livestock plays a vital role in supporting the livelihoods of millions of people. Full documentation of existing livestock breeds is needed to enable the sustainable use and conservation of domestic a... | |
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| The LEISA systematization process | 16-19
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| Marta Madariaga, Marcos H. Easdale |
| Together with representatives of eight other organisations from as many Latin American countries, the authors were part of a systematization pilot project coordinated by the LEISA Revista de Agroecolo... | |
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| Our participation in the systematization process | 19
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| Teresa Santiago Vera, Maximo Garcia |
| In 2004 we received an invitation from the Latin American LEISA magazine to takepart in a sistematization process. This process proved particularly interesting, especially because of the relationships... | |
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| Documenting agroecology: a competition in Brazil | 20-21
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| Francisco Roberto Caporal |
| In 2003, the Ministry of Agrarian Development in Brazil launched a new national policy on technical assistance and rural extension. In 2004, it was realised that additional strategies were necessary t... | |
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| Documenting successes from the People's University | 22-23
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| Shree Padre |
| Adike Patrike is a monthly magazine about farming, published and distributed in the state of Karnataka, India. Now in its 18th year, this magazine is unique, as it is written, edited and published by ... | |
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| Learning through writing | 24-25
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| Paul Van Mele |
| Report writing, and reading, is often a necessary part of life. But it could be said that official reports are boring, full of donor language, and they never say what actually happened or what really ... | |
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| Out of heads and onto paper | 26-27
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| Evelyn Mathias & Paul Mundy, Isaac Bekalo |
| Someone interested in producing written materials will easily find that there is lot of information about the topic, but most of it is scattered or in the wrong format, or simply in people's heads and... | |
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| New technologies support farmers'documentation | 28-29
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| Anne Piepenstock, Orlando Arratia, Luis Carlos Aguilar |
| Documenting local knowledge implies a respect for the tradition of transferring knowledge across generations, trusting the creative and innovative capacities of men and women. This article presents a ... | |
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| Photographs from the field | 30
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| Paul Van Mele |
| "A picture is worth a thousand words". Although there is plenty of truth in this popular saying, photos can do more than comunicate or be published. This article describes how photos have be... | |
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| Participatory video as a tool for documentation | 31-32
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| Chris Lunch |
| Participatory Video provides an opportunity for rural people to document their own experiences and knowledge and to express their wants and hopes from their own viewpoints. This article shows how this... | |
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| Recording the useful plants of tropical Africa | 33
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| Leo Oyen, Jan Siemonsma |
| Plant Resources of Tropical Africa, PROTA, is an international programme which aims to compile and document the existing knowledge on around 7000 useful plants of tropical Africa. About a dozen standa... | |
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| The Encyclopedia of Sustainability | 34-36
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| Tamara Mohr |
| Both ENDS and a number of other NGOs and local organisations worldwide agreed to start this project in support of the many sustainable practices of natural resource management which do exist, but whic... | |
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| Listening to individual voices | 37-39
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| Siobhan Warrington |
| Panos London works with the media and other actors to stimulate informed and inclusive debate around key issues in order to foster sustainable development. Its aim is to ensure that the perspectives o... | |
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| Strenthening agroecological innovation networks | 40-41
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| Adriana Galvão Freire, Paulo Petersen, Luciano Marçal da Silveira, Manoel Roberval da Silva |
| AS-PTA has tried different ways of facilitating communication and stimulating farmer-to-farmer exchange of knowledge. Its whole approach is founded on a basic assumption: in rural areas, knowledge is ... | |
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| Learning with innovation histories | 42-43
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| Boru Douthwaite, Alok Sikka, Rasheed Sulaiman, John Best, John Gaunt |
| Constructing an "innovation history" is a methos for recording and reflecting on an innovation process. The process of preparing this history stimulates discussion, reflection and learning a... | |
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| Towards sustainability: monitoring farm progress | 44-46
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| Karl North, Donn Hewes |
| Many different tools are currently being developed for measuring sustainability. An interesting approach is the one using web graphs, with which, considering different indicators, it is possible to vi... | |
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| Learning together from our experiences | 47-49
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| Doug Reeler |
| Every month, the practitioners in our organisation take a week-long reflective pause from fieldwork, participating in a process which we call our "home week". This is a conscious process, ce... | |
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| Field notes: Vaccination of small ruminants contributes to poverty alleviation | 50
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| Ikpegbu Ekele |
| Families in Olokoro, in the state of Abia in Nigeria depend on crops for food, while livestock keeping is for income generation. The Centre for Grassroots Agriculture Development is supporting these f... | |
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| New Books | 51
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| Networking | 54-55
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| Visit the websites of the LEISA Magazines! | 56
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| The LEISA Magazine has a comprehensive website for more than a year now. At present, this is visited by more than 10 000 persons every month. In it, you can find more than 2000 articles... | |
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