In his 2019 election campaign, he promised to move Sri Lanka to organic farming in a decade. He made good on that promise last spring, issuing a blanket order to ban all imports of agrochemicals.

A shift to better farming practices is possible, but Sri Lanka’s abrupt switch to organics offers a bitter lesson in how to change food systems in a sustainable way.

Then came Sri Lanka’s sudden, and disastrous, turn toward organic farming. The government campaign, ostensibly driven by health concerns, lasted only seven months.

The dramatic implosion of Sri Lanka’s economy has a lot of culprits. Is organic farming one of them? The right and contrarian types are seizing on the country’s banning of chemical fertilizers ...

Sea cucumber farming is a relatively new industry in Sri Lanka, but it has quickly gained popularity due to its potential for high profits. However, the rapid expansion of sea cucumber farms ...

Sri Lanka has announced compensation for more than a million rice farmers whose crops failed under a botched scheme to establish the world’s first 100-percent organic farming nation.. The island ...

Sri Lanka has backed down from its ambitious plans to become the world’s first completely organic farming nation, reversing a ban on imports of chemical fertiliser. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa ...

Sri Lanka has been the unfortunate nation to experience thepainful ill-effects of adopting organic farming in a hurry. The trouble in the tropical paradise has been brewing for a while now.

A new publication from the Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka (IPS) finds strong evidence that tobacco farming is not a particularly lucrative enterprise for most smallholder tobacco farmers in ...

In 2021 Sri Lanka’s president announced farming in Sri Lanka would go completely organic. Within a year the organic dream was abandoned. Why did natural farming fail in Sri Lanka? Show more In ...

Seaweed farming in Sri Lanka “Currently, seaweed farming is only done on a small scale in Sri Lanka,” Cumaranatunga says. “The seaweed is dried and exported without any value addition.

With its president fleeing amid widespread protests, Sri Lanka has been plunged deeper into an ever spiraling political crisis. It’s easy to forget in this meltdown, but the economic turmoil ...