1st Edition
Gender and Forests Climate Change, Tenure, Value Chains and Emerging Issues
This enlightening book brings together the work of gender and forestry specialists from various backgrounds and fields of research and action to analyse global gender conditions as related to forests. Using a variety of methods and approaches, they build on a spectrum of theoretical perspectives to bring depth and breadth to the relevant issues and address timely and under-studied themes.
Focusing particularly on tropical forests, the book presents both local case studies and global comparative studies from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, as well as the US and Europe. The studies range from personal histories of elderly American women’s attitudes toward conservation, to a combined qualitative / quantitative international comparative study on REDD+, to a longitudinal examination of oil palm and gender roles over time in Kalimantan. Issues are examined across scales, from the household to the nation state and the global arena; and reach back to the past to inform present and future considerations.
The collection will be of relevance to academics, researchers, policy makers and advocates with different levels of familiarity with gender issues in the field of forestry.
Foreword
Lorena Aguilar
Part 1: Introduction
1. A Gender Box Analysis of Forest Management and Conservation
Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Marlène Elias and Bimbika Sijapati Basnett
2. Gender and the Roots of Community Forestry
Marilyn Hoskins
Part 2: Gender and Climate Change
3. Living Conservation Values: Women and Conservation Easement Protection in Central New York
Virginia Kennedy
4. The Forest Kingdom and Values: Climate Change and Gender Equality in a Contested Forest Policy Context
Sara Holmgren and Seema Arora-Jonsson
5. Gender Gaps in REDD+: Women’s Participation is Not Enough
Anne M. Larson, T. Dokken, Amy E. Duchelle, Stibniati Atmadja, I.A.P. Resosudarmo, Peter Cronkleton, M. Cromberg, William Sunderlin, A. Awono and G. Selaya
6. Forest Conservation in Central and West Africa: Opportunities and Risks for Gender Equity
Helen Harris-Fry and Carlos Grijalva-Eternod
7. Gender and Forest Decentralization in Cameroon: What Challenges for Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change?
Anne-Marie Tiani, Mekou Youssoufa Bele, Richard Sufo, Eugene Chia and Alba Saray Perez Teran
8. Gender and Vulnerability to Multiple Stressors, including Climate Change, in Rural South Africa
Sheona Shackleton, Leigh Cobban
9. Unveiling the Complexity of Gender and Adaptation: Feminization of Forest and Drought-Induced Men’s Migration in Mali
Houria Djoudi and Maria Brockhaus
Part 3: Gender and Tenure
10. Women and Tenure in Liberia and Cameroon
Solange Bandiaky-Badji, Cecile Ndjebet, Julie T.B. Weah, and Jonah Meyers
11. Gender Dynamics in Odisha’s Forest Rights Act
Priyanka Bhalla
12. Tenure vs. Territory: Black Women’s Struggles in the Pacific Lowlands of Colombia
Kiran Asher
Part 4: Gender and Value Chains
13. Gender and Forest, Tree and Agroforestry Value Chains: Evidence from Literature
Verina Ingram, Merel Haverhals, Sjoerd Petersen, Marlène Elias, Bimbika Sijapati Basnett and Sola Phosiso
14. Untamed and Rare: Access and Power in DRC’s Emerging Luxury Bushmeat Trade
Gina LaCerva
Part 5: Longstanding and Emerging Gendered Issues
15. Gendered Knowledge Sharing and Management of Shea (Vitellaria paradoxa) in Central-West Burkina Faso
Marlène Elias
16. Gender, Migration and Forest Governance: Re-Thinking Community Forestry Policies in Nepal
Bimbika Sijapati Basnett
17. Revisiting Gender and Forestry in Long Segar, East Kalimantan, Indonesia: Oil Palm and Divided Aspirations
Rebecca Elmhirst, Mia Siscawati and Carol J. Pierce Colfer
Part 6: Conclusions
18. Conclusion: Looking Forward in Gender and Forestry Research and Praxis
Marlène Elias, Bimbika Sijapati Basnett and Carol J. Pierce Colfer
Biography
Carol J. Pierce Colfer is a Senior Associate, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and Visiting Scholar, Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, USA.
Bimbika Sijapati Basnett is Gender Coordinator at CIFOR, based at its headquarters in Indonesia.
Marlène Elias is a Gender Specialist at Bioversity International, based in Malaysia.
"The bold experimentation and collaborative learning conveyed in this volume trace an odyssey through which conversations around gender and forests moved from initial dismissive laughter to powerful research and practice ongoing across scales and contexts, scientific disciplines, and diverse ways of knowing and being." – Susan Paulson, University of Florida, USA.
"Amid growing recognition of the importance of gender in many aspects of development, many researchers and practitioners are unsure what this means in practice. This volume provides clear guidance, with a clear conceptual framework and case study applications. Although focusing on forestry, it is also relevant to others working on climate change, tenure, and value chains." – Ruth Meinzen-Dick, International Food Policy Research Institute, USA.
"The multiple roles of women in the forest sector are frequently underestimated. This excellent book provides hard and convincing evidence of the need for significant changes in the way that gender issues are dealt with by the forest sector and should be mandatory reading for all current and future forest professionals." – John Innes, University of British Columbia, Canada.
"This accessible volume brings together a diverse set of authors and case studies that focus on gender as an important dimension of all aspects of forest use and management. Chapters drawing on experiences from all the world’s regions are usefully connected through a conceptual framework (The Gender Box) that incorporates dynamics of time and space in addressing eleven important topics. Key emerging themes of climate change, value chains, and land tenure are addressed in chapters in the book’s three sections, providing a much needed integration of thinking and practical reflection on the roles and relationships of both women and men." – Marianne Schmink, University of Florida, USA.
