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Saving seeds
Bharat Beej Swaraj Manch members pledged to regenerate and widely share the enormously rich diversity of traditional crops and crop varietiesas a collective open-source heritage belonging to all
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Solar Panels and Solidarity
The adivasi women of Edamalakudi, Kerala’s remotest panchayat, have helped light up their villages with solar power!
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Telangana government urged to declare state as ‘Millet’ state to prevent suicides by farmers
Satheesh said: 'Making the traditional knowledge of these farms as the foundation, 'Bangaru Telangana' can be achieved'
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Teach a Girl to Farm, and Transform Her Life in the Process
By empowering West Bengali girls to grow food, their economic value is increased, making parents less likely to marry off their daughters or sell them ...
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She runs the village’s seed bank
Government officers, scientists, civil society activists and media come to the region regularly to look at the women’s farms and seeds. Their stories regularly appear in newspapers and on television channels ...
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Barefoot hydrogeologists: The next generation
The time taken for villages in Nainital district, Uttarakhand to resolve their spring-related disputes has shrunk from two year to six months. Here's why.
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Football changes life of village girl
Rohini, 17, beat the odds and represented the country in a football tournament in Chile
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पिठोरी शिरसगाव ते सँटियागो – रोहिणीचा ‘गोल’ (in Marathi)
जालना जिल्ह्यातल्या एका छोट्याशा गावातल्या मुलीला फुटबॉलसारख्या पुरुषी समजल्या जाणार्या खेळात प्राविण्य मिळवता येणे ही मोठीच आश्चर्याची गोष्ट आहे; नाही का?
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Mahila Kissan Sammelan 2015
Millets which are much more nutritious and will stand up to the changing climate, get no support at all.