Nearly 75 per cent of full-time workers on Indian farms are women, with less than 8 per cent of women farmers owning land, said Dr. Nandini Azad, President Indian Cooperative Network for Women – Working Women’s Forum (ICNW – WWF) (the host organization)
It has reached 600,000 women members across four states in South India (Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Telangana) in 267 occupations. The voices of poor women are heard at global high tables with representation at for eg.: the World Farmers Organization (largest independent voice of farmers), and International Raiffeisen Union (oldest cooperative union) as…
