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Groundnut shelling - Rural women in India take lead in most of the household works and are also involved in agriculture works. Photo: ICRISAT, L Vidyasagar
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A woman farmer with a young extensionist in Ethiopia. Photo: ICRISAT
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A woman harvesting pigeonpea crop in her farm in Padasoli village of Rajasthan India. Photos: Sreeram Banda, ICRISAT
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Priscilla Mutie from Muuni village in Eastern Kenya shells pigeonpea to get a better price at the market. Photo Swathi Sridharan, ICRISAT
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Women farmers in pigeonpea fields. Tanzania's improved maize-legume mixed systems . Photo: ICRISAT
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Women inspect pigeonpea at flowering time in East Africa. Photo: ICRISAT
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Indian women farmer in a sorghum field. Sorghum provides food security and income for millions of poor farmers women living in the drylands. Photo: ICRISAT
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By focusing on early maturity and high yield, researchers are helping transform chickpea into an internationally traded commodity and source of income for rural communities. Photo: ICRISAT
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Delivering personalized information to farmers via the Green PHABLET to save crops, raise incomes. Farmers, particularly women have shown keen interest in the device. Photo: ICRISAT
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Women farmers at ICRISAT headquarters in India listening intently as scientists explain about better farming practices. Photo: ICRISAT
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A woman farmer seeks information on her Green PHABLET. Photo: ICRISAT
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Local women attending a Farmers Field Day organized by ICRISAT in Badua village, Rajasthan India. Photo: Sreeram Banda, ICRISAT
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Women farmers in Telangana during a lunch break. Many women farmers in India join men in the agriculture field works. Photo; ICRISAT, L. Vidyasagar
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Women farmer with a bundle of chickpea harvest. Photo: PS Rao, ICRISAT
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A good groundnut harvest means food security, good income and a happy farmer. Photo: L. Vidyasagar, ICRISAT
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“The high yields of the drought-tolerant and pest-resistant chickpea and the market value, meant that I am no longer seen as a poor widow but a successful farmer,” says TemegnushDabi, Ethiopia Photo: A Paul-Bossuet/ ICRISAT
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Women frying green chickpeas in India. Photo: L. Vidyasagar, ICRISAT
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Hari Bai from Siyalwada village in Madhya Pradesh, India. Photo: V Nagasrinivas Reddy/ ICRISAT
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Juliette Harawa, a young women farmer wants to lead expansion activities Njati womens group. Photo: Alina Paul-Bossuet/ ICRISAT
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Alifosina sings aflatoxin prevention song in Mchinji, Malawi. Photo: Photo: Alina Paul-Bossuet/ ICRISAT
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To reverse the trend and offer hope to the women in Rajasthan, scientists and a local development group has been working to provide science-backed research to improve traditional water storage technology. Photo: Prashant Panjiar/ ICRISAT
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On her 40 bighas (6.5 ha) of land Manibai grows pearl millet, cluster bean, green gram, moth bean, sesame and watermelons. “Pearl millet is only for self-consumption while the pulses are sold if there is any surplus left over,” she says. Photo: Prashant P
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Lack of water combined with poor soils also makes it difficult to get any returns from agriculture. Photo: Prashant Panjiar/ ICRISAT
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Off a dusty track that stretches into the remote vastness of the western Indian state of Rajasthan stands a little thatched-roof and mud walled dwelling – Manibai’s home. Photo: Prashant Panjiar/ ICRISAT
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Rameshwari Devi has been instrumental in encouraging other women in her village to be part of the project. Dhirasar village, Photo: Prashant Panjiar/ ICRISAT
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To improve nutrition and supplement livelihoods, fruit trees have been provided to RameshwariDevi and other women. “These trees will not only provide nutrition but if there is a good harvest we can also sell in the market,” she says. Photo: Prashant Panji
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She grows bajra (pearl millet), moth beans, til (sesame), and moong (pulses) but cannot produce enough to sell in the market. Photo: Prashant Panjiar/ ICRISAT
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Rameshwari Devi gets up at 4 am to fetch brackish water from a source 3-4 kms away. Photo: Prashant Panjiar/ ICRISAT
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Women leader - Rameshwari Devi, Rajasthan, India. Strategies that took women’s needs into account and worked directly with the women made big impacts. Photo: Prashant Panjiar/ ICRISAT
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Members of women’s groups in Kenya being trained to make dishes from finger millet, in a bid to educate and sensitize them to the market demand for the grain and products. Photo - ICRISAT
