Forest governance alternatives: sustainable practices with a gender perspective, Juan Evangelista Analco, Oaxaca, Mexico

Abstract

This article is the result of a transectional descriptive research with which the benefits and solutions generated by the appropriation practices developed from society were identified. As well as the problems faced by women in the forest of San Juan Evangelista Analco, Oaxaca, Mexico. An analytical framework was designed that examines elements of forest governance in socio-environmental appropriation with a gender perspective. The information was obtained from a mixed methodological process, where casual and technical talks conditioned a space of trust that resulted in a process closer to the co-search and development of a workshop designed under a participatory learning model. The results showed the role of indigenous women in the existence of other processes in the relationship between society and nature, which emerge as a community solution and not as prescriptive policies that contribute little to the development and care of forest assets, and which are central issues in discussions about the environmental crisis and its relation to collective action.