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Shilpa Vasavada
Shilpa Vasavada is a gender and community institutions specialist with around three decades of experience in the livelihoods sector. Her experience spans across the areas of strategy formulation, capacity building, mentoring support, and evaluation studies for gender mainstreaming in natural resource-based livelihood projects. Shilpa has worked with civil society organisations, international non-governmental organisations (INGOs), government agencies, and CSR projects across different states of the country. She is a graduate from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.
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The 10,000 FPOs scheme ignores women farmers
In this piece, Shilpa Vasavada puts forth her concern that if we don’t revisit the new Farmer Producer Organisations (FPO) guidelines with a gender lens, women in the agriculture sector will be left behind. She makes a case for the inclusion of women in FPOs, by indicating how it has the potential to ensure both gender justice, as well as business productivity, and outlines measures which can be taken to increase female participation
