development policies can build on this principle to promote the dissemination of good practices within professional networks of women farmers and traders in the region by modifying the architecture of social relations their goal is to increase the social capital of individuals resulting from the combination of internal links to a community and external links with other social groups that are more diverse from a geographic ethnic religious or identity point of view walther the addition of actors seems particularly suited to the case of agricultural sectors such as rice in which women are underrepresented