Daughters Of The Soil

English/22mins 30sec/2003
Producer: TERI
Supported by: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

Subject Focus: The film focuses on couragous women who have stood up for their rights as farmers.

Summary: Utter the word farmer and the image that immediately comes to you is of a man ploughing a field. But the grim reality is that women form a large part of the agricultural workforce and often end up doing more work than men. Women handle some of the toughest of jobs on the field, while men are happy with mechanical jobs. Instead of lauding their contribution, society has ignored women - even thrown stumbling blocks in their path if they attempted to empower themselves. Women have been taken for granted. Daughters of the Soil raises an important point. Women who are farmers should be seen as farmers, not agricultural labourers.

Producer’s/Director’s Profile: A unique developing-country institution, TERI is deeply committed to every aspect of sustainable development. From providing environment-friendly solutions to rural energy problems to helping shape the development of the Indian oil and gas sector; from tackling global climate change issues across many continents to enhancing forest conservation efforts among local communities; from advancing solutions to growing urban transport and air pollution problems to promoting energy efficiency in the Indian industry, the emphasis has always been on finding innovative solutions to make the world a better place to live in.