Gender and Forests: Climate Change, Tenure, Value Chains and Emerging Issues

"This ...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."

The editors of this book present a group of both local case studies and global comparative studies with a particular focus on tropical forests and gender 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. The collection is drawn from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, as well as the United States 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. "


Contents include the following:
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