Why is Community Forestry a Social- and Gender-blind Technology? The Case of Nepal

Gender Technology And Development

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 313-332

  Buchy, Marlène ^a   Subba, Suman ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

^b UNDP Program   (Nepal)

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EID: 28244457383     PISSN: 09718524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/097185240300700301     Document Type: Article

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