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COP26: How Women Can Save the Planet, with Anne Karpf

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The Bongaroo Project Challenges the Status of Women in Agriculture

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Regini a from gugerat, where they suffer both a flooding in some seasons and then drought in other seasons. They have designed something called the bongaroo, which is a water management system that stores water when there are floods, and then it's available for the drought. And they trained a group of dullet women, the lowest cast the poorest women to install and manage these water systems. These women have brought back a lot of land into agriculture, land that would not have been you wouldn't have been able to grow food on otherwise. Their social status has risen enormously as a result. But in india own only four % of the land.

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