Barriers and facilitators to women’s participation in farmer producer organisations: Exploring the potential for women’s empowerment and collective efficacy
Over the last decade in India, farmer producer organizations (FPOs) have emerged as a means of collectivizing smallholder farmers and providing them access to extension, innovation, and market services. FPOs that center women farmers, traditionally at a disadvantage vis-à -vis their male counterparts in access to resources and extension, can serve to enhance women’s agency and collective action in agricultural value chains.