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Programmes
Throughout the world, agriculture is in crisis. The globalisation of the food economy, while enriching a small number of giant 'agribusinesses', is undermining the welfare of everyone else. We urgently need to move in precisely the opposite direction - towards shortening the links between farmers and consumers. ISEC's Local Food Programme aims to raise public awareness of these issues in order to lay the foundations for community action and political change. For more information, click here.
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A consistent theme in ISEC's educational work is the need to shift direction - away from dependence on a global economy dominated by huge corporations and supranational institutions, towards economic structures that are more decentralised, diversified, and ecological. We disseminate this message through lectures, seminars, and interviews with ISEC Director Helena Norberg-Hodge; workshops and conferences on global-to-local initiatives; and books, reports, journal articles, book chapters, videos, and even comic books. For more information, click here. |
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Set deep in the Indian Himalayas on the western edge of the Tibetan
plateau, Ladakh, or 'Little Tibet', is one of the highest and
driest inhabited places on earth. Since 1975, ISEC has been providing
Ladakhi leaders with information about the impact of conventional
development in other parts of the world while exploring more sustainable
patterns of development in Ladakh itself, based on the use of
local resources and indigenous knowledge. For more information, click here. |
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'Roots of Change' is a ground-breaking programme of guided community study. It is open to people of all ages, and requires no academic background. All that is needed is a willingness to question some of the assumptions underlying our faith in progress and a desire to work for change. For more information, click here. |
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