Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 285)

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Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 285)

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Moreover, often the male~centredness of extension service and
agricultural workers, even when they have women extension
workers and agricultural engineers, leads them to undermine
the potential of their own women workers' involvement with
peasant women. Thus, it is a quite common event to find those
few women graduates in agronomy and agricultural engineering
allotted urban based secretarial and administrative tasks
rather than operating in the field with peasant women where
their impact could be greatly utilised.
In the West Bank the general pattern of deve lopment
intervention by grass-roots organisations and NGO development
agencies has followed the classic pattern of male-centred
productive development projects and intervention. If we
consider the work of the foriegn NGO's operating on the West
Bank and Gaza, of whom more than sixty are active, we find
only two have attempted to get seriously involved in income-
generating projects for women. One of these projects is the
Surif Women's Cooperative, initially established and funded
through the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), which produces
and sells local Palestinian embroidery. (22) The other
project, called “Our Production is Our Pride" Women's
Cooperative which is a. Norwegian government funded
development project, is much more relevant to the peasant
subsistence sector. This project involves women in the
production of foodstuffs. This last project is very new and
in the initial start-up and evaluation phase. It is based in
two villages, one in Beit Hanoun in Gaza and the other in
Beit Illo in the Ramallah district. This last project is the
only NGO funded project which addresses the issue of income—
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Alex Pollock

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