The major importance of 'minor' resources: Women and plant biodiversity

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dc.contributor.authorHoward, P.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.temporal1982 - 2003en
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T19:30:40Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T19:30:40Zen
dc.date.issued2003en
dc.description.abstractDue to women's assigned tasks and roles, women have developed specific knowledge of plants. Women are plant breeders, seed custodian, and gather plants for medicinal, culinary, fuel, crafts, construction, and fodder purposes. The plant use, management, and conservation occur within the household which makes this knowledge invisible and undervalued by the outsider. This fact creates gender biases in research, and scientific knowledge, which in turn affects the impact of projects and policies. Traditional knowledge and indigenous rights to plants are not gender neutral. In order to achieve sustainable conservation of biological diversity one needs to pay greater attention to gender. It is important to recognize the role women play in transmitting traditional knowledge and practices. Also, it is important to recognize indigenous rights and women's rights to plants and land resources.en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier3126en
dc.identifier.citationIIED Gatekeeper Series No. 112en
dc.identifier.issn1357-9258en
dc.identifier.other3126_GK112.pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/67277en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherLondon, UK: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)en
dc.relation.urihttp://www.farmingsolutions.org/pdfdb/GK112.pdfen
dc.relation.urihttp://www.iied.org/pubs/pdfs/G01115.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectPlantsen
dc.subjectBiodiversityen
dc.subjectWomenen
dc.subjectIndigenous communityen
dc.subjectAgrobiodiversityen
dc.subjectLocal knowledgeen
dc.subjectGenderen
dc.subjectPlant variety protectionen
dc.subjectBiodiversity conservationen
dc.subjectGenderen
dc.subjectGender biasen
dc.subjectPlant conservationen
dc.subjectBiological diversityen
dc.subjectPlant biodiversityen
dc.subjectTraditional knowledgeen
dc.subjectField Scaleen
dc.titleThe major importance of 'minor' resources: Women and plant biodiversityen
dc.typeTechnical reporten
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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