Female Farmers in U.P. Becoming Agents of Social Change
Down To Earth, one of our favourite sustainability & science publications recently covered an inspiring story of rural women in Uttar Pradesh banding together to form a movement demanding their rights to their ancestral agricultural lands. The article covers the successful story of Suresho Saini who fought for her 1.6 hectares of ancestral agricultural land when her husband and in-laws deserted her. Fearlessly, Suresho fought for her rights and later convinced her parents to