1st Week - Living Farms, Biodiversity & Agroecology
Faculty - DR Vandana Shiva, Dr Av Singh, Narsanna Koppula, DR Vir Singh and Navdanya Team
#LivingFarms
Dr Vandana Shiva- sessions: Two Paradigms of Food, Two Systems of Agriculture
Two Paradigms of Seed & Biodiversity : Industrial Vs Ecological
Biodiversity Based productivity; Solution to Hunger and poverty : Doubling nutrition & farm Incomes
Soil Not Oil : Biodiverse organic solution to climate change
Dr Av Singh - Sessions - Food & farming by numbers & farming with systems of mind
Agronomy with an ecological twist and Plant Nutrition & organic Biostimulants
DR Vir Singh - Sessions - Ecological philosophy & Agroecology: the earths Green Mantle: Photosynthesis and living energy
Narsanna Koppola - sessions - Permaculture Design
Navdanya Team - Sessions - Biodiversity of crops & insects: Managing pests through harmony & balance
Not all insects are pests: pollinators & other friendly insects
Making your own natural pest control agents with biodiversity
2nd Week - Living Seeds, Biodiversity & Participatory plant breeding
Faculty - DR Vandana Shiva Chris & Marilyn, Dr Salvatore Ceccarelli & Navdanya Team
#LivingSeeds , #NoPatentsonSeeds, #SeedFreedom
Dr Vandana Shiva - Sessions - IPR, Patents on seeds, GMOs old & new: a false promise
Dr Salvatore Ceccarelli - Sessions - Importance of seeds, Produce your own seed & participatory breeding and from participatory to evolutionary breeding
Navdanya Team - Seed Saving, Seed conversation, Seed treatment and Seed sowing practical session
3rd Week - Living Soil, Ecological Renewal of Soil Health
Faculty - Dr Sultan Ismail, Chris & Marilyn, Hari Raj & Navdanya Team'
#LivingSoil
Dr Sultan Ismail - sessions - The Living Soil
Chris & Marilyn - Sessions - The Soil Food web and Biodiversity in Soil
Diverse ways of improving soil fertility as a laboratory session
Navdanya Team - Sessions - Diverse ways of improving soil fertility with Soil compost , liquid compost, ecological weed management and Green manure. Garbage epmzine & Vermi wash.
Navdanya's study on chemical Vs organic farming, and experience in climate reliance through biodiversity.