Agricultural transformation and changing labour relations: Implications for peasant women in Sri Lanka
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1989-01
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Irrigation development and government sponsored peasant resettlement have been central features of agricultural development in the arid North-central province of Sri Lanka since the first half of this century.Settlement policy has however received fresh impetus in the past decade with the application of new technologies both biochemical and mechanical under the government's crop diversification programme wich has been initiated under the accelerated Mahaweli Development programme (AMDP) with aid from UNDP, WEP, the world Bank ADB OPES countries USAID the wetherlands, UK and Japan.
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Labour Relations, Agricultural Development, Women in Sri Lanka