Background Rural people's movements are rising to confront unprecedented global hunger, displacement, and environmental and climate destruction. They are holding...

Intensive use of toxic pesticides has had profound impacts on rural women who represent half of the farming population and...

Sudha Chechi is a remarkable woman who has defied traditional gender roles to become a rural woman leader and manager...

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,...