Gender and community conservation

dc.contributor.authorUnited States Agency for International Development. Office of Women in Developmenten
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T19:11:03Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T19:11:03Zen
dc.date.issued2001en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractThe conservation of biodiversity relies on the involvement of the full community -- both women and men -- whose interests and perspectives regarding natural resources may differ. Often, an ostensibly gender-neutral initiative may in fact be biased against women. For example, in some cultures, women are discouraged from participating (or are dominated by men) in meetings to determine plans that will affect their day-to-day activities surrounding natural resource use. Yet, if women cannot participate in decision making, they may not engage in executing plans that will have a positive, long-term benefit in preserving natural resources. Because men's and women's roles and impact on the environment may differ, devising a gender-neutral initiative is not enough. Rather, there must be an explicit effort to understand these roles and then design a program that will accommodate the activities of both women and men.en
dc.description.notesAvailable in SANREM office, FSen
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dc.identifier1891en
dc.identifier.citationGender Matters Quarterly June 2001(3): 1en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/66466en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.relation.urihttp://www.oired.vt.edu/sanremcrsp/documents/gender/Gender_And_Community_Conservation.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2001 Development Alteranatives, Incen
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectWomenen
dc.subjectEnvironmental impactsen
dc.subjectGenderen
dc.subjectAgricultureen
dc.subjectEcologyen
dc.subjectEnvironmenten
dc.subjectEnvironmental impactsen
dc.subjectCommunity conservationen
dc.subjectFarmingen
dc.subjectEcosystem Farm/Enterprise Scaleen
dc.titleGender and community conservationen
dc.typeAbstracten
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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