Sunday 23 January 2011

A Small Dose of Orissa

Sunrise on the Chilka - Largest lagoon in Asia

Rural Development Institute(RDI), based in Seattle, is changing access to and ownership over land all over the world. Their work is remarkable. These women now have joint titles with their husbands to homestead plots.

Vermicompost and mushroom cultivation
These women rent a man-made lake in their village for fishing.

A large contingent of the people in Orissa are tribal.


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