Women Headed Households in Agriculture: Report from West Bengal, India

Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt; Itishree  Pattnaik

doi:10.37773/ees.v5i1.590

Women Headed Households in Agriculture

Report from West Bengal, India

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Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1336-1422
Itishree Pattnaik Gujarat Institute of Development Research

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https://doi.org/10.37773/ees.v5i1.590

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Women in farming; Sundarbans; West Bengal; India; Women-Headed Households

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Chandrasekhar, S, Soham Sahoo, and Hema Swaminathan. 2020. “Seasonal Migration and Feminization of Farm Management: Evidence from India”. Working Paper no. 630. Bangalore: Indian Institute of Management. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3745554

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Government of India. 2019. Agricultural Statistics at a Glance 2018. New delhi: Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Department of Agriculture, Cooperation & Farmers Welfare, and Directorate of Economics and Statistics. Government of India.

Maity, Kingsuk, Debasis Mazumdar, and Pinaki Das. 2018. “Male Out-Migration and its Impact on Women Empowerment in West Bengal.” Economic Affairs 63 (2): 459–467. 10.30954/0424-2513.2.2018.23

Pattnaik, Itishree, and Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt. 2021. “Do Women Like to Farm? Evidence of Growing Burdens of Farming on Women in Rural India.” The Journal of Peasant Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2020.1867540.

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2022-02-11

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Lahiri-Dutt, K., & Pattnaik, I. . (2022). Women Headed Households in Agriculture: Report from West Bengal, India. Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal, 5(1), 223–229. https://doi.org/10.37773/ees.v5i1.590

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Vol. 5 No. 1 (2022): Ecology, Economy and Society--the INSEE Journal

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