06-11-2008, 10:33 PM
Dalit women crank camera to showcase life
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> Under the banner of the Community Media Trust, the collective of women farmers from the State, launched their multimedia publication here on Monday. Titled âAffirming Life and Diversity: Rural Images and Voices on Food Sovereignty,â the series comprises films that emerged from an action research project on sustaining local food systems, agricultural biodiversity and livelihoods supported by the International Institute for Environment and Development, United Kingdom.
The Community Media Trust, affiliated to the Deccan Development Society, was created to document the struggle, the images and the voices of rural women. Society director P.V. Satheesh said the 12 video films made by the mostly illiterate women, who were given a six-month training, traced the experience of women in regaining their autonomy over food production, seeds, natural resources, and markets.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> Under the banner of the Community Media Trust, the collective of women farmers from the State, launched their multimedia publication here on Monday. Titled âAffirming Life and Diversity: Rural Images and Voices on Food Sovereignty,â the series comprises films that emerged from an action research project on sustaining local food systems, agricultural biodiversity and livelihoods supported by the International Institute for Environment and Development, United Kingdom.
The Community Media Trust, affiliated to the Deccan Development Society, was created to document the struggle, the images and the voices of rural women. Society director P.V. Satheesh said the 12 video films made by the mostly illiterate women, who were given a six-month training, traced the experience of women in regaining their autonomy over food production, seeds, natural resources, and markets.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->