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.
‘Intersecting Inequalities: Climate Induced Migration and its Effects on Women Farmers and Agricultural Workers in India’ (2025) by Reema Sathe for the Society for Promoting Participative Ecosystem Management (SOPPECOM)…
‘The Diversity of Gendered Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change of Indian Farmers: A Feminist Intersectional Approach’ (2016) by Federica Ravera, Berta Martín-López, Unai Pascual, and Adam Drucker for Ambio.
‘Climate Change, Agrarian Distress, and the Feminization of Agriculture in South Asia’ (2022) by Emily M.L. Southard and Heather Randell for Rural Sociology.
‘Woman in Agriculture, and Climate Risks: Hotspots for Development’ (2018) by Nitya Chanana-Nag and Pramod K. Aggarwal for Climatic Change.
‘Jal, Jungle, Aur Zameen: Kya Mahilao Ko Milega Unka Haq’ (2019) is an 11-minute Hindi-language documentary by Khabar Lahariya.
‘How These Women Grow Vegetables in the Cold Deserts of Ladakh’ (2025) is a 9-minute Hindi-language documentary by the Good Food Movement.
‘Farmers in a changing climate: Does gender matter? Food security in Andhra Pradesh, India’ (2010) by Yianna Lambrou and Sibyl Nelson for the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), United Nations.
‘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).