section 1. Gender : current status -- section 2. Gender : some issues -- section 3. Policies towards gender empowerment -- section 4. Gender and rural development -- section 5. Gender : select interventions for gender development

Agricultural interventions are designed on certain assumptions of empowerment that do not necessarily address the livelihood constraints of the rural women they set out to support. This is a failing that might be due to the omission of women’s voices expressing their understanding of...