TY - JOUR
T1 - Challenging Perceptions about Men, Women, and Forest Product Use: A Global Comparative Study
AU - Sunderland, Terry
AU - Achdiawan, Ramadhani
AU - Angelsen, Arild
AU - Babigumira, Ronnie
AU - Ickowitz, Amy
AU - Paumgarten, Fiona
AU - Reyes-García, Victoria
AU - Shively, Gerald
PY - 2014/12/1
Y1 - 2014/12/1
N2 - This study uses a multi-case dataset to question current assumptions about the gender differentiation of forest product use. We test some of the commonly held ideas on how men and women access, manage, and use different forest products. Overall, we found significant gender differentiation in the collection of forest products, which seems to support the claim that there are distinctive "male" and "female" roles associated with the collection of forest products. However, we also found that men play a much more important and diverse role in the contribution of forest products to rural livelihoods than previously reported, with strong differences across tropical Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
AB - This study uses a multi-case dataset to question current assumptions about the gender differentiation of forest product use. We test some of the commonly held ideas on how men and women access, manage, and use different forest products. Overall, we found significant gender differentiation in the collection of forest products, which seems to support the claim that there are distinctive "male" and "female" roles associated with the collection of forest products. However, we also found that men play a much more important and diverse role in the contribution of forest products to rural livelihoods than previously reported, with strong differences across tropical Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
KW - Forest products
KW - Gender
KW - Global comparison
KW - Income
KW - Livelihoods
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.03.003
DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.03.003
M3 - Article
VL - 64
SP - S56-S66
IS - S1
ER -