General Conclusions and Policy Implications

We obtained the following conclusions from the empirical analysis in the previous chapters. First, the results from TEM analysis based on three male and three female cases clarified that socio-cultural and political changes in the relationships between men and women, as well as among the same sexuality are necessary. Secondly, the CIG (common interest group) approach created a platform for the rural farming communities to get access to the local institutions through the accumulation of social capital. In addition, the rural women of farming households are officially recognized as female farmers through the CIG approach although the entrepreneurial development of women farmers is still limited in the region. Thirdly, there are multi causal relationships among the factors affecting farmers’ performance in DRM, in which, the factors of gender, poverty, social capital and farmers’ attitudes toward technology and training are important in the haor area of Bangladesh. Therefore, our policy implication suggests that the government should pay more attention to the entrepreneurship and social innovation for socio-cultural and political transformation through changing the collective cognition of the society along with economic growth.