Local Knowledge and Womens Leadership are Key to Food Justice: Activists

KATHMANDU, Feb 17 (IPS) - Manjula Dungdung is explaining why she is fighting for land and agricultural rights for herself and other members of the Kharia tribe, who grow the food they eat. “Women’s right to land is especially important because it is an issue of our dignity, and since we are the ones who do most of the agricultural work, it is to maintain food security.”

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