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The gendered impacts of agricultural asset transfer projects: Lessons from the Manica Smallholder Dairy Development Program

This paper looks at the gendered impacts of a development project that provided improved dairy cattle and training as part of a broader effort to develop a smallholder-friendly, market-oriented dairy value chain in Manica province, Mozambique.
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Gender, assets, and agricultural development programs: A conceptual framework

Being able to access, control, and own productive assets such as land, labor, finance, and social capital enables people to create stable and productive lives.

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Does social capital build women's assets?

This paper investigates the long–term impact of agricultural technologies, disseminated using different implementation modalities, on men’s and women’s asset accumulation in rural Bangladesh.

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Everyday forms of collective action in Bangladesh

This paper examines fifteen cases of collective action in six villages in rural Bangladesh. Collective action was defined broadly and identified from significant episodes in previous life-history research in the same villages.

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Beyond the bari

This paper uses a longitudinal data set from rural Bangladesh to analyze the factors that affect men's and women's ability to participate in groups and to engage in relationships with powerful and influential people.

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Enabling equitable collective action and policy change for poverty reduction and improved natural resource management in the Eastern African highlands

The role of local and external institutions in natural resource management (NRM) is gaining attention in the literature, fostering greater understanding of the relationship between collective action and poverty, collective action and equity, and the
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Shocks, groups, and networks in Bukidnon, Philippines

This study examines the role of groups and networks in helping poor Filipinos manage their exposure to risks and cope with shocks.

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Empowerment through technology

This paper explores how and to what extent women and men have benefited from the build-up of social capital in technology uptake, and the role of women in this process.

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Gender and collective action

This paper presents a framework for investigating the intersection of collective action and gender; i.e.

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The many meanings of collective action

Collective action in agriculture and natural resource management is all too often perceived of in terms of the mere number of participants, with little consideration given to who participates, why, and the outcomes of inequitable participation.

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Decentralization and environmental conservation

This paper analyzes how women’s participation affects institutional outcomes related to the decentralized governance of community forests in Madhya Pradesh, India.

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Gender and local floodplain management institutions

Floodplain wetlands are the major common pool natural resource in Bangladesh. Mostly men fish, and both men and women collect aquatic plants and snails.