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Fruits of shared labour: the Indian women joining forces for food security
Rural women in Tamil Nadu are mostly excluded from land ownership, but collective farms can offer self-sufficiency
When all the shops closed due to the coronavirus lockdown, small collectives were key to remaining self-sufficient for marginalised farmers in India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu.
“We had sufficient grains and vegetables at home, while others in the village were seeking government support,” says 46-year-old Poongani, one of the widowed Dalit women among the nine members of the Sivanthi Poo farming collective in the village of Thottampatti.
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