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    Women sitting in a group_widowhood
    June 11, 2024
    Colourful chundaris for change: Rewriting widowhood customs in Barmer
    by Anita Soni | 3 min read
    a group of women sitting in a circle on the ground--loan counselling
    March 14, 2024
    Money wise: How rural women benefit from loan advice
    by K Ramalakshmma | 3 min read
    two men standing in long grasses each with an arm slung over the other's shoulder--common land
    October 20, 2023
    Photo essay: It takes a village to save common land
    In arid Rajasthan, livestock owners struggle with fodder shortages and encroachments upon their shared land. The residents of Thana, a small village, have found a solution.
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    Group of women in a field_rural women
    November 1, 2022
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    Rural women empower a model that thrives
    SSP’s investment in rural women builds their confidence to assume public leadership roles and helps them promote climate resilience, food security, and more.
    by Saloni Meghani | 6 min read
    Women gather for a meeting-farmer producer company
    April 12, 2021
    What does it take to run a farmer producer company?
    A day in the life of an Adivasi woman who manages a women-owned farmer producer company that collectivises small and marginal farmers to help them improve their incomes.
    by Lalitha Taram | 5 min read
    A woman in Jharkhand advocating for local governance _ PRADAN
    May 2, 2019
    The only way to make development sustainable
    "We asked ourselves — is there another way to engage with communities? Where ultimately, they can unlock the social capital that they have built, exercise their agency without external help, and where they themselves can decide on their development agenda."
    by Sukanta Sarkar, Binju Abraham | 7 min read
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