How Arunachal’s Women Healers Are Conserving Rare, Endangered Plants
Traditional Adi healing practices are based on the use of medicinal herbs but climate change is driving these plants to extinction. Here is how a few women healers are making a difference
Women Like Bhanumati Are Powering Andhra’s Natural Farming Model
Amid chronic drought, debt, and landlessness, women in Anantapur are using natural farming to reshape agriculture, economies, and gender roles – but face mounting challenges.
In Drought-Hit Karur, One Woman Builds A Climate-Resilient Food Forest
As climate change alters agriculture and the lives of people, women like Saroja Kumar lead efforts to craft resilience solutions such as food forests
Mapping Tidal Floods: How Women in Coastal Kochi Villages Are Building Climate Resilience
In the flood-prone coastal villages of Kochi, as rising sea levels threaten homes and livelihoods, women are creating community-driven solutions to the climate emergency that the state is only beginning to acknowledge
Forecasting Drought: In Parched Marathwada Villages, Women Are Building Early Warning Systems
A women’s collective has collated a set of traditional indicators for an impending drought. It not only helps them reorganise farming practices but also prepare families for a crisis now intensified by climate change
Women Who Guard The Tides: Mangrove Conservation In The Absence Of Land Rights
When men migrate for work, it is the women who work to conserve the mangroves of disaster-prone coastal Odisha to protect the fragile ecosystem from erosion. But they have no rights over these mangrove lands
