Nepal Coordinator: Mrs. Yamuna Ghale

PhD Student: Ms. Sony KC, Sushant Acharya

Research Team members:  Dr. Basu Subedi; Ms. Sharmila Shiwakoti, Ms Apsara KC, Mr. Amit Maharjan, 

Masters Students: Ms Pragya Pokharel; Ms Supriya Gurung; Ms Richa Bhusal

Collaboration: Kathmandu University and Department of Agriculture

Brief Description: The “Feminisation, agricultural transition and rural employment: Social and political conditions of asset building in the context of export-led agriculture (FATE) is a 6 Years (2014 to 2020) Research programme funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) within the funding scheme ‘Research for Development (R4D)’. It is led by the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies (IZfG) of the University of Bern, Switzerland. The FATE Project is implemented in Bolivia, Laos, Nepal and Rwanda from July 2014 and will complete in June 2020. The international project team consist of : Dr. Eliud Abucheli Birachi, International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Kigali, Rwanda; Professor Dr Elizabeth Jimenez Zamora, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés-Postgrado en Ciencias del Desarrollo (CIDES-UMSA), La Paz, Bolivia; Dr Saithong Phommavong, National University of Laos (NUOL), Faculty of Social Sciences, Vientiane, Lao PDR, Dr Bishnu Raj Upreti, PhD; Nepal Centre for Contemporary Research (NCCR-Nepal), Kathmandu, Nepal; Prof. Dr Heinzpeter Znoj and Dr Sabin Bieri, University of Bern, Switzerland, Dr Sarah Cook, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Geneva, Switzerland. The Nepal Centre for Contemporary Research (NCCR) is the formal Nepal partner of the FATE.

Website Link: http://www.fate.unibe.ch/