Women, forests and plantations

 

WRM VIDEOS

Women and Climate Change

Produced by Gender CC, Women for Climate Justice with the support of the WRM International Secretariat.
Produced by the World Rainforest Movement – December 2010
Also available in French, Portuguese and Spanish

Women raise their voices against tree plantations - Testimonies from Brazil, Nigeria and Papua New Guinea"

This is anaudiovisual tool that show the findings of three case studies. The information presented in the video is complemented with a summary of the full report containing the findings of the workshops. This summary can be accessed at: http://www.wrm.org.uy/subjects/women/summaryreport.pdf

By WRM - March 2009. Also available in French
Women, Communities and Plantations in Ecuador
Testimonials on a socially and environmentally destructive forestry model
By Ivonne Ramos and Nathalia Bonilla - October 2008. Also available in Spanish

Women and Eucalyptus Stories of Life and Resistance
Impacts of Eucalyptus Monocultures on Indigenous and Afrobrazilian Women in the State of Espírito Santo. Brasil - January 2008. Also available in Portuguese and Spanish

 

Women, forests and plantations. The gender Dimension
Selection of articles published in the monthly electronic bulletin of the World Rainforest Movement, addressing the gender dimension of the impacts in the forests of plantations. Agust 2005. Also available in French and Spanish

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Special Bulletin 152- March 2010 (complete version)
Doing honour once again to Woman’s Day, thousands of peasant, working and unemployed women are on the march in Brazil. They are marching to express their rejection of the criminalization of social movements, against violence falling on women, against agribusiness and monoculture eucalyptus and sugarcane plantations. They are also marching in defence of food and energy sovereignty and of public investment in peasant farming. All over the world there are women who are becoming aware, getting organized, making demands and becoming empowered.This bulletin is from them and for them.

Special Bulletin 140 - March 2009 (complete version)
Communities in the South are being affected by the spread of monoculture tree plantations and women are the most impacted by them. Over the past months, WRM and Friends of the Earth International organized jointly three workshops with local women: one in Asia (Papua New Guinea), one in Africa (Nigeria) and one in Latin America (Brazil). The main reason for choosing cases in those countries was that all had something in common: the direct or indirect involvement of the European Union in the spread of such plantations.

Special Bulletin 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

  • Balas de papel - By Silvia Ribeiro, La Jornada, México, March 2008 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/

 

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