Meet the Women-Run Cooperatives Changing the Face of Indian Agriculture

Meet the Women-Run Cooperatives Changing the Face of Indian Agriculture

Women perform roughly 80 percent of agricultural labor across rural India, yet fewer than 13 percent of them legally own the land they cultivate. That gap between effort and ownership has quietly fueled one of the most consequential shifts in Indian rural economics — the steady, determined rise of women-run agricultural cooperatives that are rewriting … Read more

How Cooperative Healthcare Is Making Hospitals Affordable in Rural India

How Cooperative Healthcare Is Making Hospitals Affordable in Rural India

When a seasonal farm worker in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh needed an appendectomy in 2023, the nearest district government hospital had no surgeon available that week. The private clinic nearby quoted ₹75,000 — roughly five months of his annual income. What saved him was a community-owned health cooperative that performed the same procedure, including post-operative care, for … Read more