Gender and Sustainable Forest Management in East Africa and Latin America
By E. Mwangi, Ruth S. Meinzen-Dick, Yan Sun. 2011
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This paper presents a comparative study of forest management across four countries in East Africa and Latin America: Kenya, Uganda, Bolivia, and Mexico. It focuses on one question: Do varying proportions of women (low, mixed, high) in forest user groups influence their likelihood of adopting forest resource enhancing behavior? We found that higher proportions of females in user groups, and especially user groups dominated by females, perform less well than mixed groups or male dominated ones. We suggest that these differences may be related to three factors: gender biases in technology access and dissemination, a labor constraint faced by women, and a possible limitation to women's sanctioning authority. Mixed female and male groups offer an avenue for exploiting the strengths of women and men, while tempering their individual shortcomings.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change, Pollution
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Citations in the corpus
- Gender and Sustainability (2014, background): “(126) find that higher proportions of females in user groups reduced the likelihood of adoption of new technologies and resource monitoring practices that are associated with improved sustainability, which they attribute to gender biases in technology access, labor constraints, and limitation to wom”
- Gender Analysis in Forestry Research: Looking Back and Thinking Ahead (2011, background): “Recent research is starting to show that gender balanced forest user groups, with both male and female participants, perform better with respect to sustainability indicators than female or male dominated groups (Mwangi et al. 2011).”