Challenges for women's participation in communal forests: Experience from Nicaragua's in digenous territories
This paper analyzes sex-differentiated use, decision-making and perceptions regarding communal forests in indigenous communities of Nicaragua's Atlantic coast. Methods include a survey, focus groups, participant observation and adaptive collaborative management processes over a two-year period. Resu...
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| author | Evans, K. Flores, S. Larson, A.M. Marchena, R. Müller, P. Pikitle, A. |
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| description | This paper analyzes sex-differentiated use, decision-making and perceptions regarding communal forests in indigenous communities of Nicaragua's Atlantic coast. Methods include a survey, focus groups, participant observation and adaptive collaborative management processes over a two-year period. Results revealed that while a higher percentage of men than women participate in the harvest of eight forest products, women participate substantially in product sales and have some control over income. A majority of men and women believe that women participate in decision-making, but that participation was of low efficacy. Women face significant obstacles to effective participation in forest decision-making in the community: weak community organization, pressure by spouses, difficulty organizing among themselves and informal sanctions. Improving meaningful participation of women in decision-making requires addressing challenges and obstacles at multiple levels; obstacles at the communal level, where the future of the forests will be decided, cannot be overcome without attention to the household. |
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| spelling | CGSpace944652025-06-17T08:23:12Z Challenges for women's participation in communal forests: Experience from Nicaragua's in digenous territories Evans, K. Flores, S. Larson, A.M. Marchena, R. Müller, P. Pikitle, A. women's participation gender forest governance community based organizations indigenous peoples natural resources participation development education This paper analyzes sex-differentiated use, decision-making and perceptions regarding communal forests in indigenous communities of Nicaragua's Atlantic coast. Methods include a survey, focus groups, participant observation and adaptive collaborative management processes over a two-year period. Results revealed that while a higher percentage of men than women participate in the harvest of eight forest products, women participate substantially in product sales and have some control over income. A majority of men and women believe that women participate in decision-making, but that participation was of low efficacy. Women face significant obstacles to effective participation in forest decision-making in the community: weak community organization, pressure by spouses, difficulty organizing among themselves and informal sanctions. Improving meaningful participation of women in decision-making requires addressing challenges and obstacles at multiple levels; obstacles at the communal level, where the future of the forests will be decided, cannot be overcome without attention to the household. 2017-11 2018-07-03T11:01:13Z 2018-07-03T11:01:13Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/94465 en Open Access Elsevier Evans, K., Flores, S., Larson, A.M., Marchena, R., Müller, P., Pikitle, A.. 2017. Challenges for women's participation in communal forests : Experience from Nicaragua's in digenous territories. Women's Studies International Forum, 65 : 37-46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2016.08.004 |
| spellingShingle | women's participation gender forest governance community based organizations indigenous peoples natural resources participation development education Evans, K. Flores, S. Larson, A.M. Marchena, R. Müller, P. Pikitle, A. Challenges for women's participation in communal forests: Experience from Nicaragua's in digenous territories |
| title | Challenges for women's participation in communal forests: Experience from Nicaragua's in digenous territories |
| title_full | Challenges for women's participation in communal forests: Experience from Nicaragua's in digenous territories |
| title_fullStr | Challenges for women's participation in communal forests: Experience from Nicaragua's in digenous territories |
| title_full_unstemmed | Challenges for women's participation in communal forests: Experience from Nicaragua's in digenous territories |
| title_short | Challenges for women's participation in communal forests: Experience from Nicaragua's in digenous territories |
| title_sort | challenges for women s participation in communal forests experience from nicaragua s in digenous territories |
| topic | women's participation gender forest governance community based organizations indigenous peoples natural resources participation development education |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/94465 |
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