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Agriculture
fromwww.npr.org
1 day ago

Photos: In this part of the world, nearly every chile pepper farmer is a woman

Women in rural India dominate chile farming, handling labor-intensive tasks while men prefer financial roles in agriculture.
Agriculture
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

I traced a single data point from a farmer's phone in rural India through seventeen corporate servers to a hedge fund in Connecticut - this is what the global surveillance economy actually looks like when you follow the money - Silicon Canals

A free agricultural app used by Indian farmers generates detailed personal data that flows through multiple corporate servers globally to inform hedge fund trading decisions, revealing structural exploitation within the digital surveillance economy.
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