How a successful collective of smallholder farmers in India is showing the way

A not-for-profit group of small-scale farmers in India is succeeding where others have failed - what is the Fair Trade Alliance Kerala doing right?

A walk through the annual Kerala seedfest, in the sultry heat of India's Western Ghats, is like a walk through a proverbial garden of Eden; okra the size of a hand; deep purple coloured runner beans; 26 varieties of chillies from one village alone. The size and colours of multiple bananas on offer here make a mockery of the fact that your average supermarket sells just one type.

With women and men standing proudly alongside their produce, this celebration of seeds and biodiversity is the future of farming: it is abundant, resilient and most importantly, smallholder led.