Local/Global Encounters

Development (2008) 51, 259–264. doi:10.1057/dev.2008.11

Ethnic Women in Aquaculture in Nepal

Ram C Bhujel, Madhav K Shrestha, Jharendu Pant and Sukanya Buranrom

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Abstract

The Women in Aquaculture project was launched in two districts of central Terai in Nepal jointly by AIT (Thailand) and Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science (Nepal). The project has trained five groups of about 150 women belonging to a traditional ethnic fishing community and supported by fish farming as a means of additional income generation and source of protein supply for the family.

Keywords:

ethnic groups, food security, fish farming, participatory research

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