Biswamohan Mohanty ‘Seed mothers’ of Orissa have played a crucial role in the revival of millet based farming systems. Being store houses of knowledge on local seeds and...
Empowering women with efficient technologies
R Prabha Rural women have found a new way for income generation by application of appropriate technologies in the field of renewable energy, food processing and sustainable...
Native varieties take back the show
Anitha Pailoor “These are my air tickets to Thailand and Malaysia. Look at these photographs taken at the conference. That was a thrilling experience for me away from the routine...
Participation of women in different micro situation based farming system of Sundarbans
Women constitute about 300 million of population in rural India. More than 75% belong to the families of resource poor. They play a major role in farming system where they are...
Empowerment processes – from hopelessness to informed decision making
Not much ago, say half a decade before, if any govt. official or politician visited Khamarbadmal, people would ask him to construct a road. Now, they would ask for a water...
Women enshrine traditional paddy storage practices
Introduction In the northeastern part of India, particularly, in the State of Assam, paddy is grown throughout the year. It is stored at domestic level for a shorter period of...
WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE
The role of women in agriculture is considered very important from early times. It is women who started crop cultivation around their dwellings when they found their husbands...
Women in Biodiversity Conservation
Bio-diversity is an indication of varied biological wealth. This wealth provides communities with food, medicine, raw material for housing and a wide range of goods and services,...