““My family was trapped in poverty,” shares Laryer Law, a 27-year-old farmer who previously worked knitting Moung patterns. Facing job insecurity, she earned between 300,000 to 500,000 kips a month. At roughly USD14 to USD24, it was not enough for her family to live on. Like Laryer, Seephan Phengkamma experienced poverty, and would need help […]
““When I used chemicals, my health was not good,” says Phonexay Thammavong, a farmer from Horkang village in Phaxay district, who would use pesticides to address an insect problem. When a program promoting organic agriculture came to her village, she was very interested and consulted her family, who agreed that they would participate in the […]
Nimkala Chauhan is living in Kapilvastu Municipality Ward No. 12, Vithuva. She is from marginalized community in terms of economic condition. She has 2 sons, 1 daughter, 2 mother/father-in-law, her husband and herself altogether 7 people are living in her family. In order to fulfill their basic needs, she had taken 5 kattha (0.169 hectare) […]
Research Centre for Gender, Family and Environment in Development (CGFED) in collaboration with Women’s Union at Hai Hau district and Hai Cuong commune launched the household’s agroecological farming models at Hai Cuong Commune, Hai Hau district in Nam Dinh province to mark International Women’s Day. The households’ agroecological farming models at Hai Cuong commune are […]
Women constitute 60% of the agricultural labor force in India, yet they only own 13.96% of agricultural lands, according to the Agricultural Census 2015-2016. Indian society’s low regard of rural women means they cannot inherit or own land, making them economically dependent on others. Discriminatory practices deny women their basic rights, even though the Hindu […]
Society for Rural Education and Development (SRED), along with Tamilnadu Dalit Women’s Movement, has been advocating with the state to give common lands for Landless Dalit women farmers’ collectives. Tamilnadu Dalit Women’s Movement believes that land right is the most empowering for the oppressed. There have been many success stories in the history of SRED, […]
(Amirthammal’s story is part of a series of case studies on exceptional women farmers practicing agroecology. This profile is adapted from Stewards of the Fields: Women Farmers Navigating Sustainable Paths: A series of case studies of fifteen women farmers’ experiments with agroecological farming published by MAHILA KISAN ADHIKAAR MANCH.) Amirthammal is a 65-year-old Dalit (Christian) […]
(Radha’s story is part of a series of case studies on exceptional women farmers practicing agroecology. This profile is adapted from Stewards of the Fields: Women Farmers Navigating Sustainable Paths: A series of case studies of fifteen women farmers’ experiments with agroecological farming published by MAHILA KISAN ADHIKAAR MANCH.) Women farmers, like Radha, are disproportionately […]
