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Call for Abstracts🌿 ACPI Student Project Awards 2026 🌿
The first scientific article of the ACROPICS project is out !
2nd Annual workshop of ACPI & ACROPICS | Bucharest, Romania- 19-23 May, 2025
Announcement: CSIRO has joined ACPI !
ACROPICS project partner visit | French INRAe-LISIS research team on official visit at UHF, Himachal Pradesh, India
International Conference “Enabling Sustainable Food Systems through Natural Farming” (13-14 Sep. 2024 | UHF – India)
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Credit: Gram Disha Trust Agroecology is an umbrella term that entails all farming practices that include sustainable inputs and social principles. While the scientific discipline was formed in the twentieth century, the farming systems it refers to dates back more than hundreds of years, that were observed by tribal and [Read more ...]
> ** Work in Progress (WIP) Notice** This platform and accompanying research are part of an ongoing, open-source initiative by the Gram Disha Trust and IIT Delhi. We are publishing these early baselines to invite collaborative critique, vernacular corrections, and field validation from farmers, agronomists, and legal scholars. The tools [Read more ...]
MoolyaSHIKHAR True Price AccountingCase Study 2025–26 A Ground Level Transformation in How Farmers Understand the 'True' Price of Their Agroecological Produce - Apples through Natural Farming For decades, apple farmers in the Himalayan belt have lived with one fundamental uncertainty –What should be the right price for their apples at [Read more ...]
Agroecological Apple Juice Value Chain 2025 SDG Indicator 2.4.1 and SDG 12 Impact Case Study Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12   Target 12.3 – Indicator 12.3.1 – Sustainable consumption and production – provides the requirements – By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food [Read more ...]
The primary objective of the visit to Kinnaur and Lahaul-Spiti districts was to assess on-ground progress of Natural Farming-based apple production under the (Sustainable Food Systems Platform for Natural Farming) SuSPNF initiative, strengthen market linkages through direct procurement from farmers, Natural Farming Oriented FPOs and KVKs, and promote CETARA-NF certification [Read more ...]
When Good Apples Face Hidden Challenges: A Story of Trust and Transparency On 22nd August 2025, a fresh lot of apples arrived at our facility. They came from two of our partner farmers, both of whom had long been associated with natural farming. The apples were beautiful to look at [Read more ...]
“If the technology decreases the operational (input) cost and complexity of the smallholder – consider it – else send it back to the drawing board”                          [Read more ...]
Apples, Mountains, and Mudslides: A Journey Through Kinnaur’s Orchards When you think of apples from Himachal, you probably imagine crisp red fruit in crdboard boxes stacked neatly on a truck, heading towards cities like Delhi or Bangalore. But behind every apple that makes its way to your market basket lies [Read more ...]
Natural Blueberries: A Backstory:Kalasan Nursery Farm (KNF) has been actively engaged in a variety of agricultural projects, with one of the noteworthy initiatives being the Blueberry Project. One key challenge which KNF has addressed is that of appropriate Varietal Selection. As there are number of crops for which little or [Read more ...]
Cetara Certificate - 2 Star - Gram Bhawan CETARA - QR - Gram Bhawan The orchard development project at Gram Bhawan, Village Baag, is more than just a farming initiative, it is part of a long-term vision to create thriving, sustainable fruit orchards that bring both environmental and economic benefits [Read more ...]