ABSTRACT
Natural disasters have annihilated lives of women in a very disproportionate manner. Notwithstanding the fact that they suffer lasting impacts in terms of health, disability, trafficking and loss of family, they are never attended to and compensated justifiably. This is because they are by and large never the owners of land, house, livestock and agriculture over it. This chapter endeavours to study how disasters affect the lives of women farmers in the rural areas of India. It tries to trace the interlinkages between disasters, agriculture and women farmers. The chapter is divided majorly into four sections. The first section elaborates the effect of disasters on agriculture and how it results in the ‘male migration’ from rural areas to urban areas. The second section studies the impact of disasters on women farmers. The third section traces the rhetoric of gender-sensitive disaster law. Finally, it tries to make a case for securing land rights to women farmers for improving and protecting the interest of disaster-struck women farmers.
