Brazil’s social movement, women and forests: A case study from the National Council of Rubber Tappers

cg.coverage.countryBrazil
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2BR
cg.coverage.regionAmazonia
cg.coverage.regionSouth America
cg.identifier.urlhttps://www.cifor-icraf.org/knowledge/publication/3532en
cg.issn1465-5489en
cg.journalInternational Forestry Reviewen
cg.subject.ciforFORESTRYen
dc.contributor.authorShanley, P.en
dc.contributor.authorSilva, F.C. daen
dc.contributor.authorMacDonald, T.en
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-04T09:15:16Zen
dc.date.available2012-06-04T09:15:16Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/20863
dc.titleBrazil’s social movement, women and forests: A case study from the National Council of Rubber Tappersen
dcterms.abstractThis paper discusses the evolution of the roles of Brazilian women within one of the most prominent organizations of the Amazonian social movement, the National Council of Extractivist Populations (CNS). Between 1990 and 2009, Brazil’s Federal government created 89 extractive and sustainable development reserves in Amazonia, encompassing 24 million hectares. The conceptual underpinning of these reserves – sustainable and multiple-use forest management – are daily put into practice by thousands of rural Amazonian women. However, rural women’s relative role in forest policy is currently marginal. The Secretariat of Women Extractivists of CNS helped to transform women’s roles within CNS and the political hierarchy of extractive reserves from largely invisible to one of significance. Their work across sectors, cultivation of ties with the State, capacity building and acknowledgement of women’s cultural connections to forests, provide a strong foundation for an increasing role of Amazonian women to promote sustainable forest management and conservation.en
dcterms.bibliographicCitationShanley, P., Da Silva, F.C., Macdonald, T. 2011. Brazil’s social movement, women and forests: A case study from the National Council of Rubber Tappers . International Forestry Review 13 (2) :233-244. ISSN: 1465-5489.en
dcterms.issued2011
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.subjectgenderen
dcterms.subjectforestsen
dcterms.subjectconservationen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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