Fruits from the forest and the fields: forest conservation policies and intersecting social inequalities in Burkina Faso's REDD+ program

Westholm, Lisa

doi:10.1505/146554816820127578

Cited by 16 publications

(12 citation statements)

References 43 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…When researchers reflect on how their own conceptualization of gender frames their research, it can reveal other ways in which gender norms are reinforced. For example, only three studies in this review (Andersson and Lidestav 2016, Bhattarai et al 2015, Westholm 2016 do not assume gender identity is binary and gender relations are heterosexual.…”

Section: Discussion: Critically Assessing Gender Mainstreaming In Formentioning

confidence: 95%

“…Kern et al (2015), Agarwal (2015), and Pham, T et al (2016) all grapple with the relationship between women's representation, institutional change, and governance. Four articles argue that in order to be successful environmental conservation programs such as REDD+ [Reduction in Emissions from Deforestation and Land Degradation+] must consider gendered power structures, particularly related to resource access and governance (Khadka et al 2014, Stiem and Krause, 2016, Westholm, 2016. In their investigation of gendered adaptation to climate change, Bhattarai et al (2015) similarly urge researchers to critically analyze community and national power relations and also call attention to the gendered knowledge and power of international development organizations.…”

Section: Conceptualizations Of Gendermentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Gender in the jungle: a critical assessment of women and gender in current (2014–2016) forestry research

Asher

Varley

2018

int. forest. rev.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Fields and forests are gendered spaces. Women's crucial contributions to productive and reproductive work within and beyond the household have been made visible since the 1970s. There has also been a persistent call for mainstreaming gender in sustainable development and environmental concerns. Prior work discusses the importance of women and gender for forests, and provides guidelines and methods to integrate them in forestry research. This paper assesses the uptake of women and gender issues in recent (2014-2016) forestry research. We found that women and gender concerns are still largely absent or inadequately addressed in forestry research published in scientific journals. Despite the call for greater gender integration in forestry, much needs to be done in quantitative and qualitative terms to meet this goal. WORDS women, forestry, gender, gender mainstreaming, gender relations of power Fields and forests are gendered spaces. As in Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book, women were largely absent from research on farming, animal husbandry, and forestry until the 1970s. Ester Boserup's (1970) study Women's Role in Economic Development played a landmark role in highlighting women's key but invisible role in agricultural production. Since then an extensive range of publications make visible women's crucial contributions to productive and reproductive

show abstract

Section: Discussion: Critically Assessing Gender Mainstreaming In Formentioning

confidence: 95%

Section: Conceptualizations Of Gendermentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender in the jungle: a critical assessment of women and gender in current (2014–2016) forestry research

Asher

Varley

2018

int. forest. rev.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Determinants of NTFP use and trade are usually studied as a function of the household socioeconomic circumstances. For example, poverty level, food security, female labor, household size, education level, ethnicity, and accessibility (road density and proximity) have been variously linked to the prevalence of NTFP trade in different settings [12,18,63,122,139,140]. However, landscape-level drivers of the use and trade of harvested NTFPs, specifically WEFs, are seldom addressed.…”

Section: Determinants and Driversmentioning

confidence: 99%

Wild Edible Fruits: A Systematic Review of an Under-Researched Multifunctional NTFP (Non-Timber Forest Product)

Sardeshpande

Shackleton

2019

Forests

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Wild edible fruits (WEFs) are among the most widely used non-timber forest products (NTFPs), and important sources of nutrition, medicine, and income for their users. In addition to their use as food, WEF species may also yield fiber, fuel, and a range of processed products. Besides forests, WEF species also thrive in diverse environments, such as agroforestry and urban landscapes, deserts, fallows, natural lands, and plantations. Given the multifunctional, ubiquitous nature of WEFs, we conducted a systematic review on the literature specific to WEFs and highlighted links between different domains of the wider knowledge on NTFPs. We found that literature specific to WEFs was limited, and a majority of it reported ethnobotanical and taxonomic descriptions, with relatively few studies on landscape ecology, economics, and conservation of WEFs. Our review identifies priorities and emerging avenues for research and policymaking to promote sustainable WEF management and use, and subsequent biodiversity and habitat conservation. In particular, we recommend that ecosystem services, economic incentives, market innovations, and stakeholder synergies are incorporated into WEF conservation strategies.

show abstract

“…A variety of cases from sub-Saharan Africa and South and Southeast Asia have largely affirmed the critique that women are substantially less likely to participate in REDD+ decision-making activities than men (Khadka et al 2014, Stiem and Krause 2016, Westholm 2016, Corbera et al 2017, Howson 2017, Samndong and Kjosavik 2017, although a handful of contrasting examples exist from Nepal, where women's participation in forest governance has increased with REDD+ interventions (Maraseni et al 2014, Sharma et al 2017. Women's general lack of participation is often attributed to cultural norms about women's gender roles, lack of effective communication to women about REDD+, and time devoted to other household activities (Coleman and Mwangi 2013, Larson et al 2015.…”

Section: Payments For Ecosystem Services (Pes)mentioning

confidence: 99%

How does gendered vulnerability shape the adoption and impact of sustainable livelihood interventions in an era of global climate change?

Call

Sellers

2019

Environ. Res. Lett.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Background. Though many studies have long considered the broad social implications of climate change, researchers have only recently started to consider the gendered unevenness of the global landscape of vulnerability, exposure, and adaptive capacity to environmental stressors and shocks. Historically, policies and interventions addressing natural resource-based livelihoods have rarely considered underlying gender dynamics despite the global pervasiveness of gendered disparities in both economic opportunities and welfare outcomes. Methods/Design. Using two electronic databases, Web of Science and Scopus, we conducted a systematic review of peer-reviewed academic literature describing livelihoods policies or interventions that included documentation of gendered impacts. We focused on natural resource-based livelihoods most likely to be affected by climate change, centering on interventions targeting agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture, and forestry. Review Results/ Synthesis. We identified 131 relevant articles, most of which focus on adoption or participation in interventions rather than outcomes. In general, women are less likely than men to engage with sustainable livelihoods interventions. When women do engage, some researchers have documented income and food security gains as well as improvements in environmental indicators in the shortterm. However, these initiatives have also been found to increase women's labor burden without corresponding gains in income. Few studies measure longer-term effects of women's engagement on welfare and environmental outcomes, a key gap in the literature. Additionally, relatively few studies explore the intersectional impacts of initiatives, such as the added burdens of ethnicity, class, education, or other differences that modify gender disparities. Discussion. Climate change has gendered impacts on natural resource-based livelihoods. In general, existing initiatives designed to increase livelihood resilience fail to reduce gender disparities and improve women's livelihoods. Greater attention should be paid to gender when designing sustainable livelihoods policies and interventions in order to increase adoption and participation, negotiate trade-offs, improve environmental conditions, and promote broadly beneficial welfare outcomes.

show abstract

Fruits from the forest and the fields: forest conservation policies and intersecting social inequalities in Burkina Faso's REDD+ program

Cited by 16 publications

References 43 publications

Gender in the jungle: a critical assessment of women and gender in current (2014–2016) forestry research

Gender in the jungle: a critical assessment of women and gender in current (2014–2016) forestry research

Wild Edible Fruits: A Systematic Review of an Under-Researched Multifunctional NTFP (Non-Timber Forest Product)

How does gendered vulnerability shape the adoption and impact of sustainable livelihood interventions in an era of global climate change?

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About