Gender and social capital for agricultural development

Gender in Agriculture: Closing the Knowledge Gap

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 235-266

  Meinzen Dick, Ruth ^a   Behrman, Julia A ^b   Pandolfelli, Lauren ^c,d   Peterman, Amber ^e   Quisumbing, Agnes R ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNITED NATIONS   (United States)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective action; Gender; Groups membership; Social capital; Social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938079261     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-8616-4_10     Document Type: Chapter

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