Rural Finance and Rural Enterprise

• China - Rural Women's Contribution to Household Income
• China - Women's Income-Generating Activities in the Wuling Mountains
• China - Women's Rural Enterprises
• Côte d'Ivoire - Out-Migration of Male and Female Yourth in the Zanzan Region
• Ghana - Informal Financial Services for Rural Women in the Northern Region
• Ghana - Women's Access to Formal Financial Services
• Ghana - Rural Women's Micro and Small Enterprises
• Ghana - Lending for Women's Income-Generating Activities
• Guatemala - Ensuring Women Borrower's Benefits from Lending
• Guatemala - Women's Experience with Formal Credit
• India - Informal Credit and Savings Groups in Manipur
• India - Lessons on NGO Partnerships from a Women's Development Project in Tamil Nadu
• India - Popular Women's Micro-Enterprises in Manipur
• Laos - Making Women's Weaving Activities Profitable
• Nepal - Group Savings Practices Among Women
• Nepal - Why Women Sometimes Do not Repay Loans on Time
• Pakistan - The Impact of New Credit and Savings Opportunities for Women
• Paraguay - Differences in Women's Access to Extension and Credit
• Sao Tome and Principe - Demand for Rural Financial Services among Women
• Syria - Credit for Rural Women
• Syria - Profitability of Women's Income-Generating Activities
• Yemen - Financial Services for Rural Women
• Africa - Blacksmiths as Partners in Developing Tools for African Women
• Access to Market - Why Women as well as Men Need Better Access to Markets
• Labour Market - Gender Issues in Labour Markets
• South Asia - Savings and Credit for Women

Agriculture, livestock, fisheries and forestry

• Botswana - Veld product-based earnings of women in Bushmen Settlements in Botswana
• China - Rural women's contribution to household income
• China - Women's livestock activities
• Grenada - Gender and age issues in agriculture
• Guatemala - Women's livestock management and marketing activities
• India - Impact of market-oriented production on household food security
• India - The importance of forest products for tribal women in India
• India - Tribal women's work in Madhya Pradesh
• Morocco - Women's role in production and household food security
• Nepal - A strategy for gender integration in a forestry project
• Nepal - Impact of gender mainstreaming in a forestry and forage project
• Nepal - Women's participation in leasehold forestry
• Sao Tome and Principe - Women fish traders
• Syria - Women's role in agriculture
• Uganda - Gender differences in control over and use of income
• Uganda - Women's farm implements in Uganda
• Yemen - Extension services for rural women
• Yemen - Women's indigenous technical knowledge on sheep operations
• Zambia - How women farm in Chimbombo
• Africa - African women farmers' need for suitable tools
• Africa - Animal traction for African women farmers
• Africa - African women's most popular tool
• Africa - Innovation in African women's farm tools
• Africa - Blacksmiths as partners in developing tools for African women
• Africa - Women's farming in Africa: A case for donkey power
• Africa - What African women farmers look for in their agricultural implements
• West and Central Africa - Productivity of women farmers
• Access to markets - Why women as well as men need better access to markets
• Indigenous knowledge - Women's indigenous knowledge of livestock production
• Livestock groups - Women's livestock groups
• Livestock production - Women's role in livestock production
• Milk production - Women and milk production
• Poultry activities - Innovation in women's small-scale poultry activities
• Training - Training and livestock extension for women
• Workload - Women's workload in livestock development

Infrastructure

• Irrigation - Prioritizing women under irrigation schemes
• Irrigation - Women's difficult access to irrigation
• Roads - Three reasons why improved roads can fail to benefit rural men and women
• Women's role in infrastructure improvement and maintenance

Extension, Education, Training and Communications

• China - A Women's Campaign
• Mali - Literacy Training for Rural Women
• Pakistan: Experience in Training and Fielding Women Paraveterinarians
• Pakistan - Theory versus Practice in Demand-Led Vocational Training among Women
• Uganda - Empowerment of Rural Women Through Functional Adult Literacy
• Education - Access of Rural Women and Girls to Educational Opportunities
• Training - Training and Livestock Extension for Women

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