Producer groups key to empowering rural women in Nepal
Women-led cooperatives pave a path to independence and benefit rural communities
Shanta Neupane had a vision. From Panauti Municipality, in central Nepal, she could see how hard women in the rural forest and farming communities around her worked in their family smallholdings, helping to feed their households.
But although, like Shanta herself, they were members of community forest user groups, these same women had little voice in their communities, no assets of their own, and received no personal income from their efforts.
Shanta knew that if these women came together as a cooperative, they could pool their skills and efforts to start producing and selling goods, taking the first steps on a pathway towards their own economic independence and improving their status in the community.
Title of publication: Landscape News Editor
Author: Sophie Grouwels
Organization: Landscape News Editor
Year: 2021
Country/ies: Nepal
Geographical coverage: Asia and the Pacific
Type: Blog article
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Content language: English