Livelihoods

Does the gender composition of forest and fishery management groups affect resource governance and conservation outcomes?: a systematic map

Publication Year: 2016

Background Women often use natural resources differently than men yet frequently have minimal influence on how local resources are managed. An...

Authors: Leisher, C.; Temsah, G.; Booker, F.; Day, M.; Samberg, L.; Prosnitz, D.; Agarwal, B.; Matthews, E.; Roe, D.; Russell, D.; Sunderland, T.C.H.; Wilkie, D.

Does the gender composition of forest and fishery management groups affect resource governance and conservation outcomes: a systematic map protocol

Publication Year: 2015

In the fields of environmental governance and biodiversity conservation, there is a growing awareness that gender has an influence on...

Authors: Leisher, C.; Temsah, G.; Booker, F.; Day, M.; Agarwal, B.; Matthews, E.; Roe, D.; Russell, D.; Samberg, L.; Sunderland, T.C.H.; Wilkie, D.

Taking migration seriously: what are the implications for gender and community forestry?

Publication Year: 2013

The growing multilocality of rural households and livelihoods, prompted by globalization and the expansion of markets, is likely to have...

Authors: Sijapati Basnett, B.

The gender box: A framework for analysing gender roles in forest management

Publication Year: 2012

Recognising widespread uncertainty about how to address gender within the forestry world (from researchers, as well as natural resource, development...

Authors: Colfer, C.J.P.

Forests: Gender and value chains

Publication Year: 2012

Value chains for forest products provide full and part-time work for women in many developing countries. Jobs are poorly paid...

Authors: Shackleton, S.; Paumgarten, F.; Kassa, H.; Husselman, M.; Zida, M.; Purnomo, H.; Irawati, R.H.; Fauzan, A.U.; Melati

The role of non-timber forest products in household coping strategies in South Africa: The influence of household wealth and gender

Publication Year: 2011

The prevalence and ranking of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) as safety-nets has been well discussed, but rarely quantified. We report...

Authors: Paumgarten, F.; Shackleton, C.

Scenario-based actions to upgrade small-scale furniture producers and their impacts on women in Central Java, Indonesia

Publication Year: 2011

Indonesian furniture accounts for almost 1% of the global furniture trade, valued at more than USD 135 billion. In many...

Authors: Purnomo, H.; Irawati, R.H.; Fauzan, A.U.; Melati

Participatory forest management and its impacts on livelihoods and forest status: the case of Bonga forest in Ethiopia

Publication Year: 2009

The forest resources in Ethiopia have suffered decades of mismanagement due mainly to loosely defined property relations over these resources....

Authors: Gobeze, T.; Bekele, M.; Lemenih, H.; Kassa, H.

The traditional broom trade in Bushbuckridge, South Africa: helping poor women cope with adversity

Publication Year: 2007

The extensive local and regional market for traditional, handcrafted twig and grass brooms in the Bushbuckridge municipality, South Africa, provides...

Authors: Shackleton, S.; Campbell, B.M.

$Women\'s place is not in the forest: gender issues in a timber management project in Bolivia$

Women's place is not in the forest: gender issues in a timber management project in Bolivia

Publication Year: 2005

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Authors: Bolanos, O.; Schmink, M.

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