The Women Carrying Water and the World
‘The Women Carrying Water and the World’ (2025) by Safina Nabi for ‘Foreign Policy’, featured in Pulitzer Center.
Migration
Various actors in our food systems migrate—seasonally or permanently, from village to village or village to city—as a short or long-term adaptive strategy, with women facing gendered vulnerabilities at every stage of that journey. When men migrate, women are left to farm alone, driving the feminisation of agriculture. When women migrate, they enter labour landscapes hostile to them as migrants, as women, and as agricultural workers.
Knowing Your Onions in Murshidabad
‘Knowing Your Onions In Murshidabad’ (2024) by Smita Khator for ‘People's Archive of Rural India’ (PARI)
Illness and isolation in Kachchh’s salt pans
‘Illness and Isolation in Kachchh’s Salt Pans’ (2025) by Sudeshna Chowdhury for ‘India Development Review’ (IDR).
Kyari to Kitchen: Training Urban Vulnerable Women to Farm
‘Kyari to Kitchen: Training Urban Vulnerable Women to Farm’ (2023), Suguna Sridhar for Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group.
Gender and Adaptation to Climate Change: Perspectives from a Pastoral community in Gujarat, India.
‘Gender and Adaptation to Climate Change: Perspectives from a Pastoral community in Gujarat, India’ (2018) Kalpana Venkatasubramanian and Smita Ramnarain for Development and Change.
Salt ‘Farming’: Gendered Labour and Ecologies of migrant workers in Little Rann of Kutch
‘Salt ‘Farming’: Gendered Labour and Ecologies of migrant workers in Little Rann of Kutch’ (2025) by Ritika Patel for Berkeley Journal of Sociology.
Women’s perspectives of small-scale fisheries and environmental change in Chilika Lagoon, India
‘Women’s perspectives of small-scale fisheries and environmental change in Chilika lagoon, India’ (2018) by Fatima Noor Khan, Andrea M. Collins, Prateep Kumar Nayak, and Derek Armitage for Maritime Studies.
Shifting agrarian labour regimes, ecology, and the crisis for Dalit women’s work in India
‘Shifting agrarian labour regimes, ecology, and the crisis for Dalit women's work in India’ (2024) by Shreya Sinha for the Journal of Economic Geography.
Crushed Hopes: The Plight of Women Cane Cutters in Maharashtra
‘Crushed Hopes: The Plight of Women Cane Cutters in Maharashtra’ is a study conducted in 2019-2020 by the Mahila Kisan Adhikar Manch (MAKAAM) and co-ordinated by Society for Promoting Participative Ecosystem Management (…