A broad category covering self-help groups, farmer producer organisations, collective farming models, and informal community groups without official designation.
‘Marathwada’s Women Rely on Ingenious Cropping Technique to Navigate Climate Uncertainty’ (2025) is a 12-minute Marathi- and English-language documentary for the Eco-India series, co-produced by Scroll.in and Deutsche We…
‘Women in Parched Bundelkhand Villages are Pioneering Water Conservation Efforts’ (Jal Saheli) (2024) is a 13-minute Hindi-language documentary by Down To Earth.
‘The Woman Farmers in Maharashtra Who are Fighting for Their Right to Own Land’ (2019) is a 10-minute Marathi- and English-language documentary co-produced by Scroll.in and Deutsche Welle (DW).
‘How did the Women of Champavat Lead a Silent Revolution of Saving the Forest (Van Saheli)’ (2025) is a 10-minute Hindi-language documentary by Down to Earth.
‘How These Women Grow Vegetables in the Cold Deserts of Ladakh’ (2025) is a 9-minute Hindi-language documentary by the Good Food Movement.
‘One Seed at a Time’ (2025) is a 16-minute Marathi-language documentary directed by Kavita Carneiro, and hosted by the People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI).
—Ibadapmon Barim, 32, Khweng village, Meghalaya
Oishika Roy explores experiences of seed savers and scientists to gather proof of relationships between people and seeds beyond that of money: generational, and through the principle of commons.
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—Reshma and Nagveni, a duo rooting for tubers in Joida, Karnataka