Introducing 'the gender box': a framework for analysing gender roles in forest management

Colfer, C.J.P.; Minarchek, Rebakah Daro

doi:10.1505/146554813809025694

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“…Similarly worth noting though is that planning and interest in forest issues alone were significant predictors of management indicating that these factors, and not practical forestry work, were key to understanding gender differences in forest risk management. Consistent with the framework proposed by Colfer and Minarchek (2013), gender dynamics on macro and meso levels are likely to contribute to this difference in involvement on a micro level. Previous studies suggest that, in addition to being excluded, women may withdraw from active participation in forest issues because they do not identify themselves as a forest owner or believe they know too little about their forest (Häggkvist et al 2014;Andersson and Lidestav 2016).…”

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confidence: 70%

“…Gender is a salient dimension in the socio-economic system of forest management (Colfer and Minarchek 2013;Follo et al 2016). Uncovering gender dimensions in the system can explain outcomes of forest management (e.g.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…individual behaviours and roles). Gender dynamics on various levels interact and influence forest management (Lidestav and Egan Sjölander 2007;Colfer and Minarchek 2013;Follo et al 2016). Thus, gendered processes on a micro level (including management by individual owners) may be linked not only to the almost globally accepted hierarchy between men and women but also to the social patterns determining women's relationships to forests in a specific region or country.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Explaining gender differences in private forest risk management

Eriksson

2018

Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research

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In many countries, lower levels of forest management activities have been observed among female forest owners compared to male owners. The present study examined potential explanations for gender differences in private forest risk management among forest owners in Sweden (n = 1482) using a questionnaire. Results from this study confirmed a slightly lower level of forest risk management among female owners in proactively combating damage caused by climate change and animal browsing when compared to their male counterparts. Further gender differences were revealed on a structural level. For example, female owners displayed higher levels of education and were more often non-resident owners and urban owners, as compared to their male counterparts. In addition, female and male owners differed regarding social-psychological variables (e.g. forest values and threat and coping appraisals). However the greatest gender difference was found in involvement in forest planning and forestry work. Even though gender differences were evident on multiple levels, involvement in forest issues and forest planning were found to be most important for explaining gender differences in forest risk management. By disentangling predictors of gender differences in private forest risk management, this study may contribute to a more strategic gender approach to forest risk governance. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 70%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Explaining gender differences in private forest risk management

Eriksson

2018

Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research

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“…Moreover, migration and settlement associated with resource investments and transmigration have fostered ethnic diversity and, with this, a continual redrawing of gender norms, suggesting a need to recognise gender not simply as an essentialised and geographically bounded form of knowledge but as in process, produced through widening geographies of production, trade and communication (Colfer and Minarchek 2013;Elmhirst, Siscawati, and Colfer 2016). The practice of combining subsistence with cash was well established long before the arrival of oil palm.…”

Section: The Journal Of Peasant Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender and generation in engagements with oil palm in East Kalimantan, Indonesia: insights from feminist political ecology

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Siscawati

Basnett

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The Journal of Peasant Studies

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Across many parts of Indonesia, investment in oil palm has brought accelerated forms of land acquisition and market engagement for communities, signalling far-reaching implications for equity and well-being of current and future generations. This paper uses a conjunctural feminist political ecology approach to explore gendered and generational engagements with oil palm in Indonesia. The paper compares four communities in East Kalimantan that form part of an ongoing study of the gendered impacts of large-scale and independent smallholder investments in oil palm in the context of corporate zero deforestation commitments in West and East Kalimantan. We show how different pathways of engagement with oil palm -adverse or otherwise -reflect the interplay between modes of incorporation into oil palm systems with landscape history, gender, life stage and ethnic identity. Whilst our findings complicate singular 'victim' narratives, they also challenge the 'cruel optimism' that is accompanying the current oil palm boom.

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“…There is therefore a risk that further inequities could develop through REDD+ initiatives unless gender analysis is fully integrated into plans and activities (Chhatre et al 2012;Colfer 2013;Larson et al 2015;Thuy et al 2012). Failure to address gender or other social inequities may also facilitate elite capture of benefits among stakeholders, resulting in reduced outcome legitimacy.…”

Section: Lessons For Redd+mentioning

confidence: 99%