World Rainforest Movement - August 2005

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. August 2005. Also available in French and Spanish

Click here to download the complete text in pdf format (290 Kb)
(also available in Spanish and French).

How to obtain a copy

CONTENTS

WOMEN AND FORESTS, AN INTRODUCTION

Women's Voices Coming from the Forest
International Women's Day: Homage to Women's Struggle in Forests and Plantations
An Inspiring Response from an Indigenous Woman
Women React to a Male-dominated World Forestry Congress

CONSERVING THE FOREST

India: Gender Bias and Disempowerment in World Bank-funded Forestry Projects
Seeing the Forests through Women's Eyes
Philippines: Lessons on Gender from Community-Based Forest Management
Women and Forest Resources: Two Cases from Central America
Senegal: Women’s Project Restores Nature and Benefits the Community
Amazon Women
Role and Status of Women in Land Use Control and Management
Women’s Land Tenure Security and Community-Based Forest Management
Women, Forests, and Adaptive Collaborative Management
Women and Knowledge of Medicinal Forest Plants
India: Women’s Knowledge and Power in Forest Societies

WOMEN AND PLANTATIONS

Indonesia: Gender Impacts of Commercial Tree Plantations
Malaysia: The Plight of Women Workers in Oil Palm Plantations
Brazil: Women’s Working Conditions in Tree Plantations
Tree Plantations Impact Doubly on Women
Women Plantation Workers Poisoned and Silenced
South Africa: Women Forestry Workers under Outsourcing Schemes

IMPACTS OF DEFORESTATION ON WOMEN'S LIVES

India: Women more Affected than Men from Deforestation
Sri Lanka: Deforestation, Women and Forestry
Papua New Guinea: Malaysian Companies Logging out the Forest
Mexico: The Loss of Forests for the Community and for Women
Impact of Logging on Women

OTHER INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITIES THAT IMPACT ON WOMEN

Senegal: The Hidden Impacts of Charcoal Production
The Impacts of Mining on Women
Papua New Guinea: Women’s Rights Undermined by Placer Dome Gold Mine
Mexico: Women Suffer the Effects of Market Opening Doubly
Women’s Life Devastated by Mining
Linkages Between Climate Change and Women
The Impact of Dams and Resettlement on Women's Lives
Women Victims of Oil and Protagonists of Resistance
Large Scale Shrimp Farming and Impacts on Women
India: Women’s Response to Devastating Mining
Ecuador: Women from Sarayaku Against Terrorism Waged by the Army

THE APPROPRIATION OF NATURE

The Impact of Protected Areas on Twa Women
Pachamama: The Impact of the Commodification of Nature on Women
Central Africa: The Twa Alienation from their Forests Impact Doubly on Women
Cameroon: Restriction Policies in National Park have Major Impacts on Women