{"id":23764,"date":"2020-10-13T15:15:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T06:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/oct\/13\/fruits-of-shared-labour-the-indian-women-joining-forces-for-food-security"},"modified":"2020-10-13T15:15:01","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T06:15:01","slug":"fruits-of-shared-labour-the-indian-women-joining-forces-for-food-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23764","title":{"rendered":"Fruits of shared labour: the Indian women joining forces for food security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rural women in Tamil Nadu are mostly excluded from land ownership, but collective farms can offer self-sufficiency<\/p>\n<p>When all the shops closed due to the coronavirus lockdown, small collectives were key to remaining self-sufficient for marginalised farmers in India\u2019s southern state of Tamil Nadu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had sufficient grains and vegetables at home, while others in the village were seeking government support,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/oct\/13\/fruits-of-shared-labour-the-indian-women-joining-forces-for-food-security\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rural women in Tamil Nadu are mostly excluded from land ownership, but collective farms can offer self-sufficiencyWhen all the shops closed due to the coronavirus lockdown, small collectives were key to remaining self-sufficient for marginalised farmer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":488,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[653,1149,59,62,61,281,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farming","category-food-security","category-global-development","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-women","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23765,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23764\/revisions\/23765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}