A woman subsistence farmer cooking on a traditional clay oven, using rice stalks as biofuel in the Sundarbans, Ganges, Delta, India. the area is very low lying and vulnerable to sea level rise. All parts of the rice crop are used, and the villagers life is very self sufficient, with a tiny carbon footprint.

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