“As a community leader, I always try to share what I have learned with other women and encourage them to adopt agroecological practices to protect their families’ health and reduce dependence on harmful chemicals.” Yeasmin Akter is a farmer from Olipur, in Daudkandi, a rural district in the Cumilla region of Bangladesh, where a women-led […]
For nearly eight years, BARCIK has worked alongside communities in Singair and Manikganj, fostering trust, dialogue, and locally led development. Rather than positioning itself as the driver of change, the organization has consistently encouraged communities to recognize their own action and leadership. At the center of this approach is the belief that sustainable women’s empowerment […]
The UN marks 2026 to recognise rural women’s role in food, biodiversity stewardship, and community survival, but recognition alone cannot fix decades of land grabs, corporate control and militarisation of rural spaces. Recognition Without Rights is Not Enough Governments and institutions cannot applaud women farmers while ignoring landlessness, resource theft, climate crises, and corporate capture. […]
Climate change contributes to a growing global climate crisis. BARCIK, together with community members and people’s organizations, is taking on the challenge of the climate crisis. This documentation highlights how local farmers are adapting to and mitigating the everyday challenges they face.
Across Southeast Asia, rural women farmers, agricultural and migrant workers, and Indigenous women sustain food systems and rural economies. Yet they face land dispossession, labour exploitation, hazardous working conditions, and systemic exclusion from social protection. The brief underscores that social justice for rural women cannot be achieved without secure access to land, labour rights, and […]
Unequal Fields amplifies the voices of rural women across Southeast Asia, exposing how landlessness, poverty wages, unsafe work, climate impacts, toxic pesticides, and the pandemic continue to deny them justice and protection. The report calls on governments to guarantee rural women’s rights, dignity, and equality.
From October 1–16, join the 16 Days of Global Action on Agroecology and stand with farmers, women, youth, and communities across the Globe to demand a #PesticidesFreeWorld and champion #AgroecologyNow. This year’s theme “Hand in Hand for Healthy Futures: Empowering Rural Women & Safeguarding Our Children through Agroecology”, links to the global call to secure […]
Our planet survives on the biological management of nature, where plants, animals, insects, and microorganisms work together to maintain balance. This interdependence sustains the environment and ensures a sustainable way of life. But today, biodiversity is under grave threat due to climate change, deforestation, river encroachment and pollution, and the excessive use of chemicals in […]
Today, our youth stand strong for agroecology, indigenous seeds, and a sustainable future. From the villages to the streets, young voices are calling for climate justice, food sovereignty, and the protection of our planet. Our Seeds, Our Future Youth Power for Indigenous Practice Healthy Earth – Healthy Life Let’s unite to protect our land, culture, […]
It features a compilation of stories of women who are survivors of pesticide poisoning and their journey to agroecology. Despite facing challenges, they have turned their sufferings into determination to reclaim what has been lost: whether it be their health, seeds, traditional knowledge, connection to land and community, or economic security.
