When we think of farmers, we tend to think of men, but the reality is that at least 50% of all the world’s food is produced by women. In one of the more remote areas of #Odisha, eastern India live small communities of subsistence farmers, who, over the last few years have managed to return to a system of cooperative, zero-input agriculture.

The women and men in this community share their work and all that it produces equally. They treat the Earth as a mother who nurtures them and not as a resource they seek to exploit for monetary gains.

Rather than surviving on an economically driven mono-crop system, the women of the community plant a variety of vegetables. This gives them and their family with not only an income but also a diverse source of nutrition.

Watch their story in this thought provoking film by the Source Project.