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Elena Trigoso-Grandes: Organising for progress and equality in Ucayali, Peru
(Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn (ASB) Programme, 2002)
The ASB Voices series aims to convey for a broad audience the insights and perspectives from people's real-life experiences and challenges in the humid tropics. In doing so, it highlights the implications for the global ...
Changes in rural household livelihood strategies and outcomes in Burkina Faso
(Nairobi, Kenya: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-arid Tropics (ICRISAT), 2002)
Changes in rural livelihood assets, activities, and incomes in the Sahelian, Guinean and Sudanian zones of Burkina Faso during the last 20 years are described and examined. A rapid resurvey in 2002 of rural households ...
The hidden side of group behaviour: A gender analysis of community forestry in South Asia
(Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002)
Communities managing common pool resources, such as forests, constitute a significant example of group functioning. In recent years community forestry groups have mushroomed in South Asia. But how participative, equitable ...
Placing social capital
(Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications USA, 2002)
This paper looks at the relevance and contributions of social capital analysis to human geography and vise versa. The authors start by defining social capital and clarifying and distinguishing concepts, and critiques of ...
Gender and development: Special issue on climate change
(Oxford, UK: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2002)
This special issue includes 12 articles dedicated to exploring some of the complex political and socio-economic issues related to climate change. The articles stress that climate change issues are highly politicized, ...
Gendering responses to El Niño in rural Peru
(Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2002)
This article reflects on the gender-specific lessons learned after El Niño in a poor rural community in Peru. The author starts by explaining that El Niño had different impacts in different areas in Peru. On upland areas, ...
A critical look at gender and energy mainstreaming in Africa
(2002)
This draft paper was distributed at the "gender perspectives in sustainable development" side event organized by UNDESA/DAW and WEDO at Prep Com III in April 2002. (United Nation Department of Economic and Social ...
Construction of third world women's knowledge in the development discourse
(Blackwell Publishers, 2002)
This paper reflects on the question of "fields of power" to explore the cultural relations of knowledge production. The gender dynamics, age, class, caste, education, marital status and other factors also influence the way ...
Men's crops? Women's crops? The gender patterns of cropping in Ghana
(Elsevier, 2002)
This paper identifies cultural distinctions between men's crops and women's crops as found in the literature on agriculture in West Africa. The study was based on a nationally survey from Ghana used to examine if indeed ...
Women in agriculture: Second international conference on women in agriculture interactive website
(Washington, DC: Women in Agriculture, USDA, 2002)
This site presents the full transcripts of the breakout sessions for the Second International Conference on Women in Agriculture. The link for each talk appears underneath one of two major themes: Community Issues and ...