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The purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate how action research project is useful to empower resource poor communities taking a case of bagdi community of Bangladesh. A kitchen gardening project was implemented in three villages of bagdi community covering 83 households from 2009 to 2010. The project sensitized households about the importance of growing vegetables and fruit species in unused homestead through interactions, demonstrations and trainings. Findings show that kitchen gardening has contributed in increasing area, production and consumption of vegetables and fruits at household level. Households have also been able to increase cash income to some extent. More importantly, this project has been able to empower bagdi community for generating innovations about vegetable farming, which might have significant positive impact on livelihoods of farmers in the long run.
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Ghosh, A.K., Maharjan, K.L. (2014). Income Generation Through People’s Participation: Kitchen Gardening Practices of Three Marginalized Bagdi Villages in Bangladesh. In: Maharjan, K. (eds) Communities and Livelihood Strategies in Developing Countries. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54774-7_8
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