Sindhu Anil Vatile, 48, is a cotton farmer from Amadi Village, Yavatmal District, Maharashtra. For the last 20 years, she...

The contribution of women in agriculture is well known. Women participate in everything from field preparation, sowing, weeding, to harvesting...

Davan Inthongsy, 40, lives in Longpiew Village, Kham District, Xieng Khuang Province in Laos. Belonging to the majority ethnic Lao...

Growing up in a rural village in Wonogiri, Central Java in Indonesia, Majinah was used to hearing about and experiencing...

Anjali Rani blames chemical pesticides for her breast cancer. Anjali, a 55-year-old mother of three from Eliotganj, Comilla District in...

Sukamti, 55, is farming for the first time in her life. A former seamstress, she was encouraged to try agriculture...

Forty-eight-year-old Chai Khemmavong has been farming for 25 years in two hectares of customary land in Kuaymor Village, Kham District,...

“By using biopesticides instead of chemical pesticides, my family has received many benefits. Now we don't need to buy pesticides,...

Shakila Kalaiselvan is the founder and leader of the Pallur Dalit Women’s Collective in Arakonam, Vellore District in Tamil Nadu,...

(Delivered by Susan Haffmans of PAN Germany on behalf of PAN International) Thank you madamme Co-Chairs for the opportunity to...