Engaging women and men equally in managing biodiversity

Engaging women and men equally in managing biodiversity
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Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Total Pages : 52
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ISBN-10 : 9789251376195
ISBN-13 : 9251376190
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Synopsis Engaging women and men equally in managing biodiversity by : Picot, L., Sisto, I., Furst, M.

Biodiversity and associated ecosystem services are crucial for food security and for the livelihoods of people involved in food and agricultural production systems around the world. Women and men use and manage biodiversity resources in different ways, and face specific constraints and opportunities. Their unique knowledge and responsibilities in the sustainable use of biodiversity must be fully recognized to ensure better gender outcomes and resource management. The publication Engaging women and men equally in managing biodiversity, provides some guidelines for integrating the gender dimensions in projects, policies and other initiatives of FAO related to biodiversity. The aim is raising gender awareness and providing guidance to FAO staff working in the field of biodiversity to help them to better identify and address the gender and social dimensions in biodiversity management.

Women and the Environment

Women and the Environment
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Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint
Total Pages : 140
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ISBN-10 : 9280724428
ISBN-13 : 9789280724424
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis Women and the Environment by : United Nations Environment Programme

This publication (which includes many short case-studies and a bibliography) focuses on gender-related aspects of land, water and biodiversity conservation and management, and is intended to inspire the environmental and sustainable development community to better understand the importance of gender, and to integrate a gender perspective across all of its work. Topics covered include prevention of desertification in China and Brazil, reduction of water pollution in post-Chernobyl Ukraine, and drought prevention in the Aral Sea region (Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan).

Gender Equality and Sustainable Development

Gender Equality and Sustainable Development
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 229
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ISBN-10 : 9781317415190
ISBN-13 : 1317415191
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Gender Equality and Sustainable Development by : Melissa Leach

For pathways to be truly sustainable and advance gender equality and the rights and capabilities of women and girls, those whose lives and well-being are at stake must be involved in leading the way. Gender Equality and Sustainable Development calls for policies, investments and initiatives in sustainable development that recognize women’s knowledge, agency and decision-making as fundamental. Four key sets of issues - work and industrial production; population and reproduction; food and agriculture, and water, sanitation and energy provide focal lenses through which these challenges are considered. Perspectives from new feminist political ecology and economy are integrated, alongside issues of rights, relations and power. The book untangles the complex interactions between different dimensions of gender relations and of sustainability, and explores how policy and activism can build synergies between them. Finally, this book demonstrates how plural pathways are possible; underpinned by different narratives about gender and sustainability, and how the choices between these are ultimately political. This timely book will be of great interest to students, scholars, practitioners and policy makers working on gender, sustainable development, development studies and ecological economics.

Gender and Sustainable Development Maximising the Economic, Social and Environmental Role of Women

Gender and Sustainable Development Maximising the Economic, Social and Environmental Role of Women
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Publisher : OECD Publishing
Total Pages : 83
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ISBN-10 : 9789264049901
ISBN-13 : 9264049908
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Gender and Sustainable Development Maximising the Economic, Social and Environmental Role of Women by : OECD

Sustainable development depends on maintaining long-term economic, social, and environmental capital. In failing to make the best use of their female populations, most countries are underinvesting in the human capital needed to assure ...

Engaging women and men in community-based resource management processes in Solomon Islands

Engaging women and men in community-based resource management processes in Solomon Islands
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Publisher : WorldFish
Total Pages : 12
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Synopsis Engaging women and men in community-based resource management processes in Solomon Islands by : Schwarz, A.

ÿGender equity refers to the process of being fair to women and men, in order that women and men can equally access opportunities and life choices regardless of their sex. It has been proposed that local and national management policies and practices can be more effective if they are more gender equitable and better consider the differences in how men and women participate in natural resource use and in the community, taking into account their potentially different goals. The CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems (AAS), led by WorldFish, aims to deliver increased food security and income for the millions of people living in and depending on aquatic agricultural systems, and intends to take a gender-transformative approach to integrating gender into research in development. In this case study, WorldFish and The Nature Conservancy have documented emerging lessons, gaps and opportunities to better understand how gender-equitable approaches can be taken into account in community-based resource management.

Women and Plants

Women and Plants
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Publisher : Zed Books
Total Pages : 324
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39076002335920
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Synopsis Women and Plants by : Patricia L Howard

These in-depth case studies from Latin America, Asia, Africa, Europe and North America provide a state of the art overview of the gender dimensions of people-plant relations. The contributors reveal, among other things, the crucial role of women in plantbiodiversity management.

Gender and Forests

Gender and Forests
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 350
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ISBN-10 : 9781317355663
ISBN-13 : 1317355660
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Gender and Forests by : Carol J. Pierce Colfer

This enlightening 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. Using a variety of methods and approaches, they build on a spectrum of theoretical perspectives to bring depth and breadth to the relevant issues and address timely and under-studied themes. Focusing particularly on tropical forests, the book presents both local case studies and global comparative studies from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, as well as the US 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. The collection will be of relevance to academics, researchers, policy makers and advocates with different levels of familiarity with gender issues in the field of forestry.

Gender and the Environment

Gender and the Environment
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Total Pages : 316
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ISBN-10 : 9264964134
ISBN-13 : 9789264964136
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis Gender and the Environment by : Oecd

Gender equality and environmental goals are mutually reinforcing, with slow progress on environmental actions affecting the achievement of gender equality, and vice versa. Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires targeted and coherent actions. However, complementarities and trade-offs between gender equality and environmental sustainability are scarcely documented within the SDG framework. Based on the SDG framework, this report provides an overview of the gender-environment nexus, looking into data and evidence gaps, economic and well-being benefits, and governance and justice aspects. It examines nine environment-related SDGs (2, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12 and 15) through a gender-environment lens, using available data, case studies, surveys and other evidence. It shows that women around the world are disproportionately affected by climate change, deforestation, land degradation, desertification, growing water scarcity and inadequate sanitation, with gender inequalities further exacerbated by COVID-19. The report concludes that gender-responsiveness in areas such as land, water, energy and transport management, amongst others, would allow for more sustainable and inclusive economic development, and increased well-being for all. Recognising the multiple dimensions of and interactions between gender equality and the environment, it proposes an integrated policy framework, taking into account both inclusive growth and environmental considerations at local, national and international levels.