An initiative to support all these local artisans, offer them business opportunities and help them to showcase, promote and sell their art.

The opportunity to earn, using her weaving skills, and support her children’s education makes Sama happy.

Some perceive a need for a linkage of traders with farmer-producer organisations to overcome issues of millet supply and pricing

There is a natural complementarity between research and action which means using non-violent, democratic means to bring about change.

The social aspirations of young people across caste, class and gender want a future that is socially and environmentally sustainable and also equal

These initiatives have stayed or even reversed rural-urban migration and attempted gender and caste justice without trashing the environment.

Demand for reduced taxes on trading for women’s collectives to help them effectively participate in value chains and get income security.

Something like this comes outside my house, every morning, And blinds me, day after day, To see beyond the road, into the margins.

The weekly Bissamcuttack market, nurturing the area’s ecologically-attuned agricultural traditions, forges a connection between consumers and farmers