NAYAKRISHI ANDOLON
NAYAKRISHI ANDOLON, A Farmers' Movement for Seed & Food Sovereignty and Biodiversity; Farida Akhter. First Edition 26 February 2023. Published by: Narigrantha Prabartana (The Feminist Bookstore) 6/8 Sir Syed Road, Mohammadpur Dhaka-1207,
Agriculture is a way of life. Biodiversity -based ecological agriculture is life-oriented productive activity and cultural practice that brings joy to our body and spirit.
Nayakrish Andolon is the biodiversity-based ecological agriculture movement in Bangladesh led by farming communities. The movement cultivates a strong but intimate sense of belonging to nature and re-awakens the truth that earth is the home of all life forms.
Biodiversity-based ecological agriculture is life-oriented farming and cultural practice that brings joy to our spirit. This is the spirit that co-evolves with nature.
Nayakrishi Andolon
Nayakrishi evokes our individual and collective socio-natural beings and facilitates experiencing the world as an intimate part of our beings. We re-learn that nature is not merely a depository of raw materials and means of our egoistic consumption, but part of us. We are material natural beings as well. All such experiences are learned through mundane practical ways of producing our food and nourishments to survive as natural beings.
Contents:
Nayakrishi Andolon/1
Our Aims/2
Shohoj Way to Anando/3
Chemicals, Poisons & Agriculture/6
Ecological meaning of 'small and marginal' farmers/12
Enabling Conditions of Biodiverse Agroecological Farming Systems/14
Learning from History/16
Learning from Farmers/18
How Nayakrishi Started?/23
Nayakrishi and Conservation of Biodiversity & Genetic Resources/26
Integration of livelihoods/27
Ten Rules of Nayakrishi/28
Nayakrishi Seed Network (NSN)/31
Community Seed Wealth Centre (CSWC)/35
Struggle against Invasive Seeds/38
Struggle against GMOs/40