Enterprises for Women’s Self-help Groups

In Tamil Nadu, most women are dependent on agriculture for sustenance. But climate change is turning once-lush fields into wastelands during the dry months, and increased flooding often washes away the harvest in the wet season. The pandemic added insult to injury: the movement of goods and labor have been disrupted by a patchwork of COVID restrictions that vary from state to state. Loss of crops and markets mean the women work long, hard hours yet receive a pittance for their produce or it goes waste for want to buyers.

 

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