A bottom-up movement is essential therefore to apply pressure on the powers-that-be at least over a period of a few decades.

Students levelled the field, planted seedlings, removed weeds, and finally, last month, harvested their produce.

The sandhai was a watering hole for people of all age groups to mingle and understand the importance and advantages of a more natural lifestyle.

A techie who traded in the comforts and chaos of the city to turn farmer, on what the transformation involved.

Cooperative initiatives that involve urban and rural people to solve problems of villages as well as cities, help to bridge the rural-urban divide

Its target is to bring down the cost of production in farming and provide higher income to farmers by following organic methods.

Member-farmers do not cultivate the same crop; the produce is purchased by the society; and farmers are debt-free.

Farmers who have reclaimed native seeds as a commons have reduced costs, increased incomes, become debt-free and are not driven to suicide.

Men may have benefited the most: there have as yet been no reported suicides in households where women have taken charge.