On International Women’s Day 2016, meet five women in Odisha who grow food …
Clarifying and strengthening land rights for women, men, and communities can increase India’s GDP by as much as $7 billion.
The odds against a girl in India are immense. Neglect, malnutrition, ill-health, lack of education, a life without assets, an early marriage and motherhood, the list is long.
At the impossibly young age of 10, Lakshmi became a bride. Soon after that she became a mother. And then, a young widow.
For years Ranimma, her husband and three daughters were like leaves blown in the wind
For decades, Cao Fenping and his wife farmed their tiny plot of land with little security. As was standard throughout China, they had no title and knew that village leaders could and would reallocate farmers’ plots regularly
Mr. Liu is part of the agricultural revolution in China that has sparked the largest, most successful, poverty reduction program in the history of the world…
When her husband, a truck driver, would travel for work, there was often no food or money in the house. “I would borrow some money from relatives and friends to buy food,”
But no matter how many hours they toiled in others’ fields, they never earned enough to buy three proper meals a day for themselves and their children
A plot of land about twice the size of a tennis court saved Poonam Barman’s future. The 14-year-old girl and her family were hungry, and landless.