Gendered medicinal plant knowledge contributions to adaptive capacity and health sovereignty in Amazonia

Díaz-Reviriego, Isabel; Fernández‐Llamazares, Álvaro; Salpeteur, Matthieu; Howard, Patricia L.; Reyes‐García, Victoria

doi:10.1007/s13280-016-0826-1

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“…Women were predominant in the valuation of medicinal products. All papers reviewed that focus on this ecosystem service show that women usually know more species with medicinal properties as well as more medicinal uses per species, especially species associated with childbirth and childhood ailments as compared to men (Al-assaf et al, 2014;Deb and Haque, 2011;deSantana et al, 2016;Diaz-Reviriego et al, 2016).…”

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Gendered perspectives of ecosystem services: A systematic review

Yang

Passarelli²,

Lovell

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Ecosystem Services

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a b s t r a c tWomen and men often have differential access to and derive different benefits from ecosystem services; therefore, their perception and knowledge of ecosystem services also differ. Understanding these differences is critical to ensuring that policies aimed at enhancing access to and use of ecosystem services can provide benefits to all genders. We conducted a systematic review of studies that aim to understand the relationship between gender and ecosystem service perceptions to summarize research from this emerging topic and to identify patterns between gender and ecosystem service perceptions from different case studies. The results show that highly gendered ecosystem services include medicinal products from forest or mangrove ecosystems and freshwater supply. Women have a stronger perception of water quality and erosion control, soil formation, habitat conservation and sustaining biodiversity. Men, on the other hand, had more knowledge of fuel and timber and extreme event mitigation services. Our review also identifies the limitations of sample size for this interdisciplinary topic, calls for more case studies and comparative studies to identify relationships between gender and ecosystem service perceptions, and calls for the development of models on ecosystem services that incorporate gender. Finally, we discuss how our review can augment existing gender frameworks for policymaking.

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Section: Provisioningmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They usually know more medicinal plant species and also more medicinal uses per species (Al-assaf et al, 2014;Deb and Haque, 2011;deSantana et al, 2016;Diaz-Reviriego et al, 2016), especially species associated with childbirth and childhood ailments.…”

Section: Medicinal Productsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gendered perspectives of ecosystem services: A systematic review

Yang

Passarelli²,

Lovell

et al. 2018

Ecosystem Services

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“…They propose to look at the “situated knowledge” which is mediated in every historical and geographical context by relations of power between socially differentiated groups and their cultural representations. Under this topic, two papers (Díaz-Reviriego et al 2016; Smucker and Wangui 2016) reflect from different perspectives and methodological approaches on the role of local ecological knowledge in building resilience and the multidimensional aspects related to knowledge production in shaping adaptation in the face of current social and ecological dynamics.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Díaz-Reviriego et al (2016) apply resilience theories to a case study amongst lay Tsimane’ of Bolivian Amazonia and their local ecological knowledge system related to the elaboration of the “rules in use” of ailments. Drawn from ecological concepts, the paper introduces and tests the concepts of knowledge, diversity and “functional knowledge redundancy” in the assessment of the degree to which local medicinal knowledge systems may be adaptive and resilient to GEC that are affecting local medical systems and community resilience.…”

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Gender perspectives in resilience, vulnerability and adaptation to global environmental change

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Iniesta-Arandia

Martín‐López

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The main goal of this special issue is to offer a room for interdisciplinary and engaged research in global environmental change (GEC), where gender plays a key role in building resilience and adaptation pathways. In this editorial paper, we explain the background setting, key questions and core approaches of gender and feminist research in vulnerability, resilience and adaptation to GEC. Highlighting the interlinkages between gender and GEC, we introduce the main contributions of the collection of 11 papers in this special issue. Nine empirical papers from around the globe allow to understand how gendered diversity in knowledge, institutions and everyday practices matters in producing barriers and options for achieving resilience and adaptive capacity in societies. Additionally, two papers contribute to the theoretical debate through a systematic review and an insight on the relevance of intersectional framings within GEC research and development programming.

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“…Three other empirical papers apply the gendered lens to resilience theory and empirical research (Aregu et al 2016; Díaz-Reviriego et al 2016; Wilmer and Fernández-Giménez 2016). As suggested by Thomas Smucker: by bringing a gendered lens to established concepts in the climate change lexicon (local knowledge, resilience, adaptation), we can contribute to refining our understanding of those terms and avoiding the use of simplistic metaphors derived from the natural sciences to describe processes that are complex, heterogeneous, and reflect dynamics of gender inequality.…”

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A synthesis of convergent reflections, tensions and silences in linking gender and global environmental change research

Iniesta-Arandia

Ravera

Buechler

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This synthesis article joins the authors of the special issue “Gender perspectives in resilience, vulnerability and adaptation to global environmental change” in a common reflective dialogue about the main contributions of their papers. In sum, here we reflect on links between gender and feminist approaches to research in adaptation and resilience in global environmental change (GEC). The main theoretical contributions of this special issue are threefold: emphasizing the relevance of power relations in feminist political ecology, bringing the livelihood and intersectionality approaches into GEC, and linking resilience theories and critical feminist research. Empirical insights on key debates in GEC studies are also highlighted from the nine cases analysed, from Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and the Pacific. Further, the special issue also contributes to broaden the gender approach in adaptation to GEC by incorporating research sites in the Global North alongside sites from the Global South. This paper examines and compares the main approaches adopted (e.g. qualitative or mixed methods) and the methodological challenges that derive from intersectional perspectives. Finally, key messages for policy agendas and further research are drawn from the common reflection.

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Gendered medicinal plant knowledge contributions to adaptive capacity and health sovereignty in Amazonia

Cited by 63 publications

References 38 publications

Gendered perspectives of ecosystem services: A systematic review

Gendered perspectives of ecosystem services: A systematic review

Gender perspectives in resilience, vulnerability and adaptation to global environmental change

A synthesis of convergent reflections, tensions and silences in linking gender and global environmental change research

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