Advocating For Women's Rights In Cotton Farming
Maveen Pereira
Friday, 1 January 2021
Traidcraft Exchange's strategy for women's empowerment addresses the fact that women make up a significant part of our global workforce head-on. Here we learn about why women's rights should be advocated for, and why in particular, within the cotton agriculture sector.
This is a segment cut from the full interview with Maveen Pereira, Director of Programmes at Traidcraft Exchange.
In this lesson you will learn:
- Why Traidcraft focuses their efforts on empowering women in rural farming communities
- About the cotton farming industry in India, the negative social impact of GM crops, and how organic farming can rejuvenate agriculture and build resilience into the sector
- What approaches and methods Traidcraft employed to upskill women farmers, encourage sustainable, organic farming practices for cotton and other crops, and reduce drudgery
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As one of the world's longest natural fibres, jute has important applications in manufacturing, from luxury fashion products to road construction, and India's jute industry is one of the largest in the world. Here we learn about the background to the industry, including the labour-intensive process jute workers must carry out to provide the 'golden fibre', with little pay, limited rights and unimaginable conditions.
This is a segment cut from a full interview with Maveen Pereira, Director of Programmes at Traidcraft Exchange.