WRM BOOKS

2008

• Women the most impacted by agrofuel production
• Women speak out about the water taken away from them
• Aridity and death vs diversity and fertility: a women’s view of plantations
• Chile: Patricia Troncoso, a symbol of the Mapuche struggle against a Government at the service of forestry companies

2007

• Gender issues and climate change

• Brazil: Women and Eucaliptus; stories of life and resistance

• Papua New Guinea: Women and Oil Palm

• Indonesia: The impacts of oil palm plantations on women
• Papua New Guinea: Life can be hard for women in oil palm plantations

• Solomon Islands: Women wounded by logging company for defending their land

• Solomon Islands: Logging as the main factor of sexual abuse of girls

• Papua New Guinea: Women most affected by oil palm plantations
• Central Africa: Deforestation brings HIV/AIDS to indigenous communities, mainly women 
• Brazil: Why landless women are opposed to monoculture eucalyptus plantations
• Cameroon: When women mobilise to protect the moabi
• Nigeria: Women of Idheze shut down Agip’s oil facilities

2006

• Women taking the lead in reversing climate change
• South Africa: Differentiated impacts of tree plantations on women
• Gender, Militarism and Climate Change
• Brazil: Impacts of eucalyptus plantations on women
• Malaysia: Women plantations workers’ conditions in oil palm plantations
• Brazil: Peasant women’s action against monoculture eucalyptus plantations on International Women’s Day

2005

• South Africa: Women forestry workers under outsourcing schemes
• India: Women’s knowledge and power in forest societies
• An inspiring response from an indigenous woman
• Cameroon: Restriction policies in national park have major impacts on women

2004

• Central Africa: The Twa Alienation from their Forests Impact Doubly on Women
• Ecuador: Women from Sarayaku Against Terrorism Waged by the Army
• India: Women’s response to devastating mining
• Brazil: Highway is blocked against expansion of eucalyptus plantations
• Special Bulletin on Women and Forests

2003

• Women react to a male-dominated World Forestry Congress
• Mexico: The loss of forests for the community and for women
• Brazil: Women’s working conditions in tree plantations
• Mexico: Women suffer the effects of market opening doubly
• The impacts of mining on women
• Papua New Guinea: Women's rights undermined by Placer Dome gold mine
• Malaysia: The plight of women workers in oil palm plantations
• Papua New Guinea: Malaysian companies logging out the forest
• Senegal: Women's project restores nature and benefits the community

2002

• Women and Forest Resources: Two Cases From Central America
• Indonesia: Gender impacts of commercial tree plantations
• Philippines: Lessons on gender from community based forest management
• Seeing the forests through women's eyes

2001

• Sri Lanka: Deforestation, women and forestry
• India: Gender bias and disempowerment in World Bank-funded forestry projects
• India: Women more affected than men from deforestation
• Senegal: The hidden impacts of charcoal production

Special Bulletin Nº 79 - February 2004 (complete version)
This edition of the WRM bulletin is entirely focused on the issue of women and forests, coinciding with the near celebration of International Women's Day on March 8, on which day 129 women died during a textile workers' struggle in the United States in 1909. The aim of this bulletin is to share information on both the differentiated impacts that women suffer in relation to forest loss and degradation and on the special role that women play regarding wise and equitable forest use. In this way we hope to contribute to raise awareness on the gender issue in relation to forests and to assist in its incorporation to both forest and women activists' agendas. We would like to express our most sincere thanks to the many people –both women and men- that contributed to this bulletin, while at the same time paying homage to all the uncountable and invisible women that are fighting throughout the tropics an unequal battle to protect the forests that are their homes and means of livelihood.

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

• Life as commerce. The Impact of Market-based Conservation Mechanisms on Women - By Global Forest Coalition

• Balas de papel - By Silvia Ribeiro, La Jornada, México, March 2008 Only in Spanish

• Declaraçao das Mulheres da Via Campesina - Brazil, March 2008 - Only available in Portuguese

• Manifesto das Mulheres da Via Campesina - Mulheres da Via Campesina do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, March 2008. Only available in Portuguese

• Manifesto do Grupo de Mulheres da Escola Quilombola - Conceição da Barra, July 2007 (only available in portuguese)

• International Women's Day 2007 - Struggling for food sovereignty - (available also in Spanish, French & Portuguese) - 8 March 2007

• Nyéléni 2007 - Women’s Declaration on Food Sovereignty - February 2007 - Also available in French, Spanish and Portuguese

• The Tragedy of the Enclosures: An Eco-feminist Perspective on Selling Oxygen and Prostitution in Costa Rica. by Ana Isla

• Ecologisme et Féminisme des pauvres : Trois mouvements socio-écologiques dans le Sud - Sandra VEUTHEY, Université de Genève, Mars 2006 (only in French)
  
• International Women's Day: homage to women's struggle in forests and plantations (available also in Spanish, French & Portuguese) - 8 March 2006

• Patriarchy at Odds: Gender Relations in Forest Societies in Asia?, Govind Kelkar and Dev Nathan (Eds.), 2003,

• Women's indigenous knowledge of forest management in Orissa (India), Smita Mishra

• Derechos de las Mujeres Indígenas - boletín especial del Servicio de Información Indígena - N° 44 Año 2004 (only in Spanish)

• Poisoned and Silenced: A study of pesticide poisoning in the plantations Tenaganita and PAN Asia and the Pacific, Malaysia, March 2002.

• Twa Women, Twa Rights in the Great Lakes Region of Africa by Dorothy Jackson

• Picture of Women’s Life Devastation by Mining by Haris Retno Susmiyati

• Towards Sustainability and Development of the Community-Based Forest Resource Management System through Ensuring the Women’s Land Tenure Security (A Case Study in Malasari and Mekarsari Villages in Halimun Ecosystem Area) by RMI – The Indonesian Institute for Forest and Environment

• Large Scale Shrimp Farming and Impacts on women by P. Raja Siregar - Campaigner of WALHI (Friends of The Earth- Indonesia) and Coordinator of Coalition of Anti-Debt Movement.

• Fighting to ensure a future for the people of East New Britain by protecting their environment from the damage caused by uncontrolled logging. Oxfam Comunity Aid Abroad

• Women, Mining and Communities report about Australia-based mining companies working overseas & Mining Ombudsman Annual Report 2001 - 2002 detailing community grievances resulting from mining activities at eight sites in the Asia-Pacific and South America. by Oxfam Community Aid Abroad

• Un amancay para Fidelia, mujer mapuche en defensa de sus tierras. (only in Spanish) por Osvaldo Bayer, publicado en Págna12

• Addressing the Underlying Causes of Deforestation and Forest Degradation: Women and Forests, presentation made by Simone Lovera, New York, February, 1998.  

• Declaración Política de las Mujeres Indígenas de Paraguay (only in Spanish) Comité Internacionalista Arco Iris (COINARIR), Agosto del 2001

• In Search of the Lost Gender. Equity in Protected Areas L, Aguilar; I. Castañeda. 2002 POAM - Población y Medio Ambiente

• Manifestación en Oaxaca por los derechos de La Mujer Indígena Consejo Indígena Popular de Oaxaca “Ricardo Flores Magón” - en Ecoportal.net  (only in Spanish)

LINKS

Gender and climate change
http://www.gendercc.net

POAM - Población y Ambiente
http://www.poam.org/articulos-estudios/genero/genero.shtml

Eldis - Gender
http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/gender/Gender.htm 

Gender and Environment
http://www.generoyambiente.org/EN/entrada.phtml

Indigenous Women Summit of the Americas
http://www.mujeresindigenas.net

Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos - Mujer
http://www.iidh.ed.cr/comunidades/DerechosMujer/default.htm

Indigenous Women's Biodiversity Network (IWBN) http://www.nciv.net/spaans/iwbn/IWBN.htm

Pambazuka News
Weekly Forum For Social Justice in Africa
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/issue/current/