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WINGS
WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is an all-woman independent radio production company that produces and distributes news and current affairs programs by and about women around the world.
Indigenous Dongria Khond people in Orissa state, India, are struggling against a forestry department decision to cut their food-bearing trees and take away their food-growing plots in favour of teak and eucalyptus plantations. The women tell about their tactics and the nutritional and environmental superiority of their traditional foods and way of life.
Featuring:
Villagers Shukhumoti Shikokua and Shikokua Shiromoti; schoolteacher and local health worker, Sabita Tripathy; Salome Nadimidoddy, nutrition scientist; Debjit Sarangi, founder of the Living Farms NGO.
Credits:
Produced by Kalpana Pradhan for WINGS; series producer, Frieda Werden.
