The Bankura story: rural women organize for change
Nalini Singh
Wastelands News 15(3): 17-27
2000
Document Number: 342685
A case study is presented of a women's group in Bankura, West Bengal, India and their work principally to develop degraded land such that it now grows trees on which tassar silk worms are reared. Supplementary income generating activities have also been organized on an individual or group basis.
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