Empowerment through Technology: Gender Dimensions of Social Capital Build-Up in Maharashtra, India
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The CGIAR Systemwide Program on Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi) is an initiative of the 15 centers that belong to the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. The initiative promotes comparative research on the role played by property rights and collective action institutions in shaping the efficiency, sustainability, and equity of natural resource systems. CAPRi’s Secretariat is hosted by the International Food Policy Research Institute’s (IFPRI) Environment and Production Technology Division (www.ifpri.org).
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