Rural India is no longer merely witnessing transformation. It is leading one. At the centre of this shift are women, and at ...

Women's collectives promote climate-resilient farming Men still dominate land ownership, key crop decisions Female self-help groups hailed as a "game-changer" CHEVATURU, India, Nov 22 (Thomson Reuters ...

Butterfly pea, also known as aparajita in India, grows as a vine and has a striking blue flower. Around two years ago, Brahma ...

Global Parametrics, part of the CelsiusPro Group, has partnered with Frontier Markets, a rural social commerce platform, to ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) officially launched The International Year of the Woman Farmer 2026, a global campaign aimed at recognizing women’s indispensable yet ...

For more than 40 years, Missionary Sister of the Queen of Apostles Ajita Mathew Vettikuzhakunnel has worked among mostly women farmers in the northern Indian dioceses of Gorakhpur, Varanasi and ...

Rural women across India are adapting to climate change in informal ways rooted in cultural practices and indigenous wisdom.

NEW DELHI, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government is considering doubling the annual payout to landowning female farmers to 12,000 rupees ($144), three sources with ...

KORAPUT, India — At a small stream in India's eastern state of Odisha, Indigenous villagers catch eels and fish for a dinner celebrating an annual harvest festival. The bounty of communal farming, ...

Agriculture in India is not merely an occupation, it is a way of life, deeply woven into the fabric of rural society. At its heart stand women farmers, the invisible backbone of our agrarian economy.

Until a few years ago, the butterfly pea flower was just another climbing plant in my village,” said Nilam Brahma who lives ...