‘Gender differences in internal migration patterns decrease as countries develop’

Social and employment policies affect migration but can have different impacts according to location and circumstances

75% of world’s seeds are preserved by small farmers, mostly women

Women produce more than half of all the food grown globally and yet they lack access to resources, knowledge and market, all of which can affect …

International Women’s day: How Telangana’s women farm hands turned farmers

The concept of group farming in not new in the state but it had majorly been out of practice for some years now

A land imagined: Indigenous crops help Marathwada women in adding to family nutrition

Women in Maharashtra's Marathwada region reclaim parts of their farmland to grow produce of choice and to ensure nutrition security of their …

Women key players in ending hunger, poverty

As rural women are an integral part of the agrarian economy, they are important in the effort to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

International Women’s Day: Women lead innovative farming in this tribal village

Women in Akhapolan have taken to cultivating vegetables using trellis systems and are reaping the profits of their endeavour

International Day of Rural Women: A day in the life of a tribal woman farmer in Odisha

Anita Naik, a farmer living near Similipal National Park, has become an entrepreneur after turning to maize instead of leaving uplands fallow

Abandonment, poverty, sexual exploitation: Why Indian women pay a higher price for climate crisis

Women have limited ability to overcome climate shocks compared to their male counterparts: It is an uneven playing field. But a gradual …

Women farmers demand recognition from govt at 2-day meet

Governments in India define farmers as those who own land, which is usually not the case with women

'Empower women in panchayats first to improve the status of women farmers'

Renowned scientist M S Swaminathan spoke to Kundan Pandey on the private member’s bill initiated by him in Rajya Sabha in 2011 to protect …

International Women’s Day: 50,000 women farmers join protest at Singhu and Tikri

Women farmers have repeatedly expressed their acute concern over the last three months, about how the three farm laws will affect their lives

India’s agrarian distress: Is farming a dying occupation

Farmers across the globe are quitting their business, while the rural youth population is increasing. Who will grow our food?

Meet Padma Bombale, a Maharashtra onion farmer fighting the odds

A landless farmer from Vetale village near Pune, she has to work for Rs 100 a day to make ends meet

Andhra Pradesh extends support to SC women farmers for natural farming push

The government will use its extensive network of women’s self-help groups to encourage the transition.  

As told to Parliament (March 23, 2022): Thermal plants coal stock at 39% of normative requirement

All that was discussed in the House through the day

Maharashtra women missed meals during COVID-19 lockdown, finds survey

10% of the 946 women surveyed skipped one meal a day; 7% skipped two meals a day  

The world can help its climate crisis — by giving more power to women

Climate change worsens women’s plight: When it causes natural resources to become scarce, traditional gender roles intensify