The Women Collectives behind India’s Farming Revolution

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🗓️ 19 December 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Last week we spoke with Vijay Kumar Thallam to discuss the development of Andhra Pradesh's natural farming movement to feed 50 million people in a few short years; in this episode we're joined by two of the women who are part of this movement. We’re joined with H. Vanurakka, or Vanu, from Durudakunta village of Kalyandurgam Mandal in the Anantapur District & Konda Usha Rani, or Usha, of the Nutakki Village in the Guntur district. They’re both single women farmers. This episode is particularly special, as our host for this episode was none other than our friend Dr. Ayesha Khan, and some of the translation voiceovers were provided by Nash Flynn. Make sure to check out their work at both The Disorderland Podcast & the Death and Friends podcast, respectively. You can follow their story on Facebook: Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming Twitter & Instagram: @APZBNF https://apcnf.in/ To support this podcast, join our patreon for early episode access at www.patreon.com/poorprolesalmanac For more information and updates, visit www.poorproles.com and subscribe to our e-mail list.

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0:00.0	Thanks for tuning in again. This is Andy, and this is the poor Proles Almanac.
0:18.6	This week we have an interview follow-up from last week.
0:21.1	We had spoken with Vijay Thalm, who has overseen the development of a massive natural farming project unlike anything else on Earth,
0:28.6	and we had discussed the crucial role women-led cooperatives played in that process.
0:32.6	The Society for the Elimination of Rural Poverty, an autonomous organization promoted by the
0:38.0	government of Andhra Pradesh in 2000 has led this agenda, specifically Ritu Satikara Samtza,
0:45.2	or RYSS, which Vijay had overseen.
0:48.6	Today we're joined by two of the women from these cooperatives, and that's not all that
0:52.7	makes this episode special.
0:59.5	For this episode, we had a good friend of ours, Dr. Aisha Khan, join us to lead the conversation.
1:03.8	Her extensive knowledge of a number of native languages and our work together on the Gastropocene podcast made this a natural place for us to collaborate.
1:07.9	If you're not familiar with the gastropocene, go listen to us, discuss the concept of food and food sovereignty wherever you're listening to collaborate. If you're not familiar with the gastropocene, go listen to us discuss the
1:11.4	concept of food and food sovereignty wherever you're listening to this. You can also find her on
1:16.3	Instagram at woke scientist, and her long form pieces can be found at wokescientist.substack.com,
1:22.7	and her podcast, Disorderland, should also be on rotation alongside us. There are a few notes I want to make
1:29.3	before you tune in here. While we've discussed Rickshar Vedan and to an extent zero budget natural
1:34.8	farming, a few acronyms are tossed around in this discussion. Ushan Vanu refer to zero budget natural
1:41.5	farming, which is the framework for the natural farming program
1:44.5	that is common in India. While ZBNF, as is called, refers to the farming concept, the abbreviation
1:52.2	also refers to a concept of polycropping, using short-term crops around long-term crops
1:57.8	in the same space. Further, this natural farming is often called APZ or APC,
2:03.9	meaning Andhra Pradesh zero or its newer iteration, Andra Pradesh community natural farming.
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