Farmer Field Schools: Unexpected Outcomes of Gendered Empowerment in Wartime Nepal
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Farmer Field Schools: Unexpected Outcomes of Gendered Empowerment in Wartime Nepal
This article is the outcome of an empirical study of technical training of women and men through Farmer Field Schools in rural Nepal during the last decade. When the Farmer Field Schools started in Nepal as part of the FAO Integrated Pest Management project in 1997, this was also the year that the Maoists declared the People’s Revolution. The article describes the increased participation of wom...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Asian Development
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2377-9594
DOI: 10.5296/jad.v1i1.7549