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The Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index revealed weak leadership and influence of women in the community as indicators of women's political disempowerment. Collective action through farmer groups can be an important strategy for women members to strengthen their political power. The study...
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This paper seeks to investigate social attributes and factors that influence entrepreneurial behaviors among rural women in Kakamega County, Kenya. A questionnaire survey was administered to 153 rural women entrepreneurs in the County. We found that husband's moral support was very important for...
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economic opportunities to rural women in the oil host communities. However, a further look at the rural women's participation …
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Entrepreneurship is a tool for facilitating rural economic development, which is becoming increasingly needed to respond to the growing impacts of accelerating climate change on rural women's livelihoods in less developed countries creating constraints on sustainable development. This study...
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Fars province, as one of the most susceptible ecotourism regions of Iran, has paid attention to the establishment of ecotourism residences with the priority of rural women through ecotourism entrepreneurial training in recent years. In this regard, the present study investigates the effective...
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-term poverty reduction in rural areas through lower labor force participation, and as such rural-based and gender …
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, income, participation in decision-making and participation in leadership positively and significantly affected rural women …
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and food for households. Although men traditionally dominate wild honey hunting, in recent years participation of women … has increased. However, evidence of the participation of rural women in wild honey hunting is often lacking. This study … emerging number of rural women were actively involved in wild honey hunting and participation is triggered by age, access to …
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This paper evaluates two alternative mechanisms, Public-Private Partnership in Peru and Business-NGO Partnership in Bangladesh, that provide rural people with access to telecommunications. The two mechanisms that are examined here are considered as two best practices in the provision of rural...
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In emerging markets for high-value food products in developing countries, processing companies search for efficient ways to source raw material of consistent quality. One widely embraced approach is contract farming. But relatively little is known about the appropriate design of contracts,...
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