In this post excerpted from the PulseWire online forum for women, Subhadra Khaperde, an activist and researcher from Indore, India, argues that anti-poverty efforts won't succeed without addressing the root causes of poverty.

Anasuya Ray is a researcher for an NGO based in Pune, India. She writes about her recent fieldwork in India’s tribal belt, where grinding poverty and malnutrition are driving villagers to support the Naxalites, a rebel group seeking to overthrow the government.