Exploring gender and forest, tree and agroforestry value chains: Evidence and lessons from a systematic review

Haverhals, M.; Ingram, V.J.; Elias, Marlène; Basnett, B. Sijapati; Petersen, Steven L.

doi:10.17528/cifor/006279

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“…Although these features offer prospects for women in forest product value chains, they also contribute to maintaining the invisibility of women's work, and their temporary or low wage employment in the forest sector. Relatively low barriers to entry into forest product markets and women's association with certain non-timber forest products that are gaining market value provide an entry point for value chain initiatives focused gender equity and women's livelihoods (Ingram et al 2016). Yet, they also carry risks of a male takeover as products traditionally reserved for women gain value (Ingram et al 2016).…”

Section: Gender Division Of Labormentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender Bias Affects Forests Worldwide

Elias

Hummel

Basnett

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Gender biases persist in forestry research and practice. These biases result in reduced scientific rigor and inequitable, ineffective, and less efficient policies, programs, and interventions. Drawing from a two-volume collection of current and classic analyses on gender in forests, we outline five persistent and inter-related themes: gendered governance, tree tenure, forest spaces, division of labor, and ecological knowledge. Each emerges across geographic regions in the northern and southern hemisphere and reflects inequities in women’s and men’s ability to make decisions about and benefit from trees, forests, and their products. Women’s ability to participate in community-based forest governance is typically less than men’s, causing concern for social equity and forest stewardship. Women’s access to trees and their products is commonly more limited than men’s, and mediated by their relationship with their male counterparts. Spatial patterns of forest use reflect gender norms and taboos, and men’s greater access to transportation. The division of labor results in gender specialization in the collection of forest products, with variations in gender roles across regions. All these gender differences result in ecological knowledge that is distinct but also complementary and shifting across the genders. The ways gender plays out in relation to each theme may vary across cultures and contexts, but the influence of gender, which intersects with other factors of social differentiation in shaping forest landscapes, is global.

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Section: Gender Division Of Labormentioning

confidence: 99%