CASO
One seed at a time
Society for Promoting Participative Ecosystem Management (SOPPECOM), 2024
Idiomas
English, Marathi
Etiquetas
Agroecology, Women farmers, Self-reliant farming, Self-reliance , Food diversity, Food security, Women empowerment, Caste, Economic savings, Patriarchy, Gender, Transformation, Soil health
Países cubiertos
India
Zona geográfica
Akola, Yavatmal, Nagpur, Beed, Hingoli, Parbhani in Vidarbha and Marathwada region of Maharashtra State.

Producto de comunicación del caso

Productos de comunicación desarrollados para presentar el caso al público destinatario. Puede tratarse de vídeos, presentaciones, documentos u otros formatos pertinentes.

One Seed at a time

DETALLES DEL CASO

DECLARACIÓN

If you practice agroecology-based farming, you will get diverse food, save on cultivation costs, have healthier soil, and you and your diverse knowledge systems will be recognised. This will help counter the damage done by conventional mono-cropping farming and challenge the oppressive structures of caste, patriarchy, and other forms of discrimination. 

PÚBLICO META

Women farmers from diverse socio-economic groups.

Prioridades y valores del público meta

  1. Recognition as a farmer. 
  2. Food diversity.  
  3. Soil health/fertility.
  4. Recognition of their knowledge. 
  5. Economic savings. 

FORMULACIÓN DEL ARGUMENTO

Given the above priorities and values and women farmers' expression of these, we have framed our case within the local context that is familiar to them. Their expression of food insecurity, increasing costs of cultivation, caste, and patriarchy is through their daily lived experiences. The film that communicates the case starts with women farmers' daily lived experiences and how agroecology-based farming provides a possibility of transformation. 

ESTRATEGIA

In presenting this case, we compare mainstream with AE farming experiences of women (before and after). These would also include their experiences as farmers belonging to different socio-economic groups and marital statuses. We include case studies highlighting these differences to support our arguments. 

LLAMADAS A LA ACCIÓN

More and more women farmers should start practising agroecology-based farming. 

AFIRMACIONES Y EVIDENCIAS

Esta sección contiene cada una de las afirmaciones hechas por el caso, junto con las pruebas aportadas para demostrar dicha afirmación. Las pruebas pueden ser de primera o segunda mano, incluir cualquier combinación de datos cualitativos y cuantitativos y proceder de diversas fuentes.

Food diversity and economic saving
EVIDENCIA

A woman shares how agroecology-based farming has allowed her to cultivate a wide variety of crops and vegetables that she wasn’t growing before. She explained that this variety has improved her own and her family's diet, providing them with better nutrition and health. She also highlights how growing vegetables and pulses has reduced her household expenses, leading to savings that were previously unthinkable. 

Fuentes
Testimony.
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Challenging Patriarchy
EVIDENCIA

A woman whose husband committed suicide describes how she fought with her in-laws to gain control of the land. Initially, her in-laws doubted her ability to farm, believing she lacked the knowledge and skills. However, after adopting agroecological practices, she successfully transformed the farm, leading to visible improvements and diverse crop production. Her testimony emphasizes how her success has changed her in-laws' attitudes toward her, recognizing her capability and strength. 

Fuentes
Testimony.
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Challenging Caste Discrimination
EVIDENCIA

Two Dalit (hitherto untouchables) women share their experiences. The first woman talks about the struggles of the Dalit community in acquiring Gairan land (community grazing lands), emphasizing the discrimination from the upper caste. The second woman discusses how things have changed since they began practicing agroecology-based farming. She explains how the neighbouring Maratha women farmers' behaviour has changed, and they now approach them for seeds and vegetables. Maratha women are also requesting them to be included in the agroecology programme. This change reflects a growing recognition of Dalit women's farming skills and a shift in the social dynamics that previously reinforced caste-based discrimination.

Fuentes
Testimonies.
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Healthier soil
EVIDENCIA

Neelima Renghe from Yawatmal who is practicing agroecology-based, self-reliant mixed farming shares her experience, by saying: "When I practiced chemical farming, the soil was hard and difficult to work with. Since doing agroecology-based self-reliant farming the soil has become soft and fertile." 

Fuentes
Testimonies.
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Diverse knowledge will be recognised
EVIDENCIA

One woman farmer, who belongs to an indigenous community, shares that she is part of the Adivasis caste, and traditionally, they only grew crops for their own consumption. Her grandmother would grow food crops and provide them with the food they needed. But when her father started farming, he focused only on three crops —cotton, soybean, and pigeon pea. They stopped growing the traditional Adivasi food crops and forgot about them. However, now she is practicing agroecology-based, self-reliant farming, and she is growing traditional vegetables again. 

Fuentes
Testimony.
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Agroecology farming helps counter the damage done by conventional mono-cropping farming
EVIDENCIA

The testimonies of four women farmers highlight how agroecology is helping them to recover from the negative impacts of conventional farming. They share how, previously, chemical farming was costly, but now their farming expenses have reduced. They now grow vegetables on their farms, leading to economic savings. Where they once practised single-crop farming, they now use mixed farming methods, bringing diversity to their fields and improving soil quality. Additionally, this approach has brought them social recognition —now even women from upper castes interact with them because of the changes brought by agroecology. Each woman presents these experiences in her individual interview. 

Fuentes
Testimonies.
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OTROS DATOS

Fotos

Women Farmers Growing Green Dreams

Women Farmers Growing Green Dreams

Dwarkatai from Beed explaining the method of sowing to other women farmers

Dwarkatai from Beed explaining the method of sowing to other women farmers

Women farmers working in the farm

Women farmers working in the farm

Seeds in Her Hands, Future in the Fields - women farmers saved the seed

Seeds in Her Hands, Future in the Fields - women farmers saved the seed

Farm

Farm

Organización líder

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Nombre
Society for Promoting Participative Ecosystem Management (SOPPECOM)
Contacto:
Swati Satpute | swatisatpute236@gmail.com