SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2007 Edition

 

 

 

 

BHARATIBEN, as she is known, has brought natural resource management into the hands of poor landless women at Ganeshpura village in Gujarat. With her quiet determination and vision, she has helped farm women transform their arid plots of land into profitable green fields which yield an income.

The women have formed a farmworkers’ union, the Mahila Khedu Mandal, which has given them visibility and strength. Policy-makers can’t ignore the union. It collectively decides what the women would like to do. At a time when companies are intruding into agriculture and farmers are committing suicide, Bharatiben shows women an alternative path.

She has given real meaning to the phrase ‘a farm of her own’ for millions of women. She has truly empowered women farmers, overlooked so far.

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