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India: Grain Turns To Gold
Consider what life was like in Kotrakund village located in Boipariguda block of Odisha's Koraput district. Mukta Pradhani, 40, a widow from this village, had a family land holding that amounted to about two acres of un-irrigated land.
Are Women in Mansaravor Neglected by Indian Government?
Mansarovar is one of the city's largest residential complexes. In the middle of these securely-built, comfortable houses are abandoned stone structures that migrant construction workers and those working as domestic workers for local households, ca
Odisha Fights Back With New Agricultural Practices to Counter Food Insecurity
This is where research done by the Central Rice Research Institute, Cuttack (CRRI), along with several agricultural universities in collaboration with the Manila-based International Rice Research Institute, has helped. One of the outputs of these jo
Sri Lankan Women Take Stage to ‘Shine’ in Politics
A lot of money is involved in elections and men use muscle power too. Women also find themselves easy targets for character assassination.
Poor Kandhamal Community in Need of Food Aid and Medical Assistance
The grief-stricken husband recalls that piece of advice and shakes his head, 'What can we poor people do about the food we eat? We eat what we get, what else?' Families like his subsist largely on a gruel made from mandia, a jungle millet, which i
