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What the work looks like.
55 photographs from the field, every one captioned. Filter by the area of work you are interested in.
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A paddy field bordered by palms, ready for harvest. 
A gathering beside the fields to plan the coming season. 
Power tillers before distribution to farmer groups. 
Equipment handed over to a farmer group. 
Farmers watching a field being tilled ahead of the season. 
A field visit at the bund, inspecting a transplanted crop. 
Young planting between established coconut. 
A facilitation session on accessing government welfare schemes, held with local NGOs. 
A self-help group meeting held in the hamlet, not the block town. 
Members completing scheme and savings paperwork. 
A garment unit giving women work within reach of home. 
Machine work on a production run. 
Cutting and finishing at the unit. 
Women farmers at a field inspection. 
Discussion at the field bund. 
Reviewing a transplanted crop together. 
A NABARD village-level awareness programme organised by the Foundation. 
A village-level awareness programme run with NABARD. 
An open meeting where objections are heard before a programme is designed. 
A community gathering in the village. 
Responsibility handed to the community institution. 
Villagers gather for an awareness session on self-help groups and livelihoods. 
A youth programme held under the trees on campus. 
Young people at a session on rural livelihoods. 
A gathering at the research institute. 
Farmer training delivered where farmers already gather. 
A facilitation session on government welfare schemes for local NGOs. 
A programme run with the state agricultural university and ICAR. 
A technical session for farmer interest groups. 
Foundation staff and farmer representatives. 
A convening on paddy trade and market access. 
Cracked ground where a tank has run dry, lotus leaves collapsed. 
The same tank, showing the extent of the loss. 
A tank bed dried by drought, lotus stalks withered. 
Ground-mounted generation beside cultivated land. 
At a farmer producer and interest group awareness programme, Madurai. 
Addressing a village programme in the open, alongside community representatives. 
A community meeting held where people already gather. 
A NABARD financial literacy session with a women's self-help group, N.M. Kulam. 
A village-level awareness programme for self-help groups and farmers. 
Community members arriving for an outreach camp. 
Emergency support delivered with local administration during the pandemic. 
A family beside the harvester at the end of the season. 
Paddy flattened by unseasonal wind and rain ahead of harvest, a growing risk as the climate turns erratic. 
A lodged paddy field beside the hamlet, the standing crop beaten down before it could be cut. 
Farmers assessing a field lost to weather, days before the planned harvest. 
A field extension visit: mechanised transplanting explained to the group before the season starts. 
A livelihood development session held with farmer producer group members. 
Foundation staff and farmer leaders reviewing a transplanted field. 
Power weeders handed over to a farmer group under a community support programme. 
Elder women waiting their turn at a community registration session. 
A NABARD village-level awareness programme, addressing self-help groups. 
A village assembly held in the open, women seated at the front. 
A medical awareness camp, questions answered one household at a time. 
Trustees and NABARD officials at a village-level awareness programme.
