Women, men and trees: Gender, power and property in forest and agrarian landscapes

Rocheleau, Dianne; Edmunds, D.

doi:10.1016/s0305-750x(97)00036-3

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“…He argues that there were differences in the outcomes of these struggles for various societies and suggests that in a large number of cases, kin groups succeeded in maintaining their control over land, marginalizing the state. 14 For discussions of gender aspects of land interests see Jacobs (1991), Moore and Vaughan (1994), O'Rourke (1995), Fortmann et al (1997), Rocheleau and Edmunds (1997), Schroeder (1997), Davison (1988b), Kevane and Gray (1999), Manuh et al (no date). is no recognized formal category for the particular character of women's land access. Marriage is one important site for women's claims to land and many authors report that husbands devolve land to their wives for farming.…”

Section: Women's Land Claimsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Policy Discourses on Women's Land Rights in Sub–Saharan Africa: The Implications of the Re–turn to the Customary

Whitehead

Tsikata

2003

Journal of Agrarian Change

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Section: Women's Land Claimsmentioning

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Policy Discourses on Women's Land Rights in Sub–Saharan Africa: The Implications of the Re–turn to the Customary

Whitehead

Tsikata

2003

Journal of Agrarian Change

325

211

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“…Knowledge is also a key asset for land management and CA. FPE argues that access to assets is gendered, as are rights to and responsibilities for resource production and maintenance (Rocheleau et al 1996a), with women's access being indirect and less independent (Rocheleau and Edmunds 1997). FPE highlights the importance of including both men and women in development research as well as increasing women's visibility in natural resource management.…”

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Gender and conservation agriculture: constraints and opportunities in the Philippines

Parks¹,

Christie²,

Bagares³

2014

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This research identifies gender-based constraints and opportunities for the adoption of conservation agriculture production systems based on a casestudy with smallholder farmers in two villages in Misamis Oriental, Northern Mindanao, Philippines. Using a livelihoods framework, we explore gendered dimensions of access to assets or resources, agricultural practices, and knowledge and perceptions in the context of food security and soil conservation. Our mixed methods approach includes focus group discussions, household interviews, participatory mapping, and GPS mapping. We found that men and women have different access to assets, gender roles, and soil perceptions that could have implications for whether farmers adopt conservation agriculture (CA) in the Philippines. This paper also discusses how development activities like CA could affect gender relations in a site-specific context and provides recommendations for increasing gender equity and the likelihood of adoption.

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“…Consumption and perceived value of benefits from a park may vary by respondent characteristics, such as wealth, gender, age, and residence time (Rocheleau & Edmunds 1997;Byron & Arnold 1999;Goebel et al 2000;Kagoro-Rugunda 2004), which we test. Perceptions of ecosystem services may be based on cultural characteristics, moral convictions, life experiences, residence time, education, social interactions, and use and non-use of particular areas (Solomon et al 2012), especially for local populations who directly depend on the land and resources for their livelihoods.…”

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Contrasting perceptions of ecosystem services of an African forest park

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SUMMARYTraditionally, conservation programmes assume that local peoples' support for parks depends on receiving material benefits from foreign exchange, tourism, development and employment. However, in the case of forest parks in Africa, where annual visitation can be small, local support may instead result from ecosystem services. Kibale National Park, a forest park in Uganda, demonstrates that people appreciate parks in ways that are seldom cited nor explored. Public perceptions of benefits accrued from Kibale were explored using two different sampling techniques: a community census and a geographic sample. In both surveys, over 50% of respondents perceived benefits provided by Kibale National Park, and over 90% of those who perceived benefits identified ecosystem services, whereas material benefits were cited less frequently. Multimodel selection on a suite of general linear models for the two different sampling methods provided a comparison of factors influencing perceptions of ecosystem services. Perceptions of Park benefits were influenced by geography, household and respondent characteristics, and perception of negative impacts from the Park. Perceived ecosystem benefits played an important role in the way the Park was viewed and valued locally. Parks have considerable impacts on neighbouring communities, and their long-term political and economic sustainability depends on managing these relationships well. Since local people have the most to gain or lose by conserving neighbouring parks, analyses that incorporate the perceptions of local people are essential to management and sustainability of park landscapes.

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Women, men and trees: Gender, power and property in forest and agrarian landscapes

Cited by 339 publications

References 18 publications

Policy Discourses on Women's Land Rights in Sub–Saharan Africa: The Implications of the Re–turn to the Customary

Policy Discourses on Women's Land Rights in Sub–Saharan Africa: The Implications of the Re–turn to the Customary

Gender and conservation agriculture: constraints and opportunities in the Philippines

Contrasting perceptions of ecosystem services of an African forest park

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