GENDER JUSTICE AND COMMUNITY FOREST MANAGEMENT

The document argues that the extractivist model, driven by capitalism and patriarchy, disproportionately impacts women by devaluing their care work and restricting their land tenure rights. It positions Community Forest Management (CFM) as a political tool for gender justice, emphasizing that women's specialized knowledge of biodiversity and their role in social reproduction are essential for territorial defense and food sovereignty. The framework calls for the recognition of women's land rights and active political participation to dismantle patriarchal structures and prevent the privatization of the commons.

• The extractivist model, characterized by agribusiness, monoculture expansion, and mining, exacerbates violence against women and restricts their autonomy through the loss of food sovereignty, impoverishment, and institutional violence.
• Women perform the vast majority of unpaid care work globally, and the degradation of forests and biodiversity increases the burden of this work by endangering water, land, and health resources.
• Despite producing 60-80% of food in non-industrialized countries and playing a key role in conservation, only 30% of rural women worldwide own agricultural land, which limits their ability to participate in decision-making.
• The 'masculinisation' of territories reconfigures community life around hegemonic masculinity, leading to the exclusion of women's needs, increased domestic violence, and the criminalization of women human rights defenders.
• Women possess specialized, diversified knowledge of forest species, agrobiodiversity, and conservation practices that are critical for food security and the defense of common resources.
• Community Forest Management (CFM) serves as a political tool to counter the privatization of territories and the commodification of nature by centering care work and the preservation of life.

APA

Guillen, C. R. (2022). GENDER JUSTICE AND COMMUNITY FOREST MANAGEMENT. Friends of the Earth International. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Gender-Justice-and-Community-Forest-Management.pdf

Chicago

Guillen, Claudia Ramos. GENDER JUSTICE AND COMMUNITY FOREST MANAGEMENT. Friends of the Earth International, 2022. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Gender-Justice-and-Community-Forest-Management.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{guillen2022gender, author = {Guillen, Claudia Ramos}, title = {{GENDER JUSTICE AND COMMUNITY FOREST MANAGEMENT}}, institution = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2022}, url = {https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Gender-Justice-and-Community-Forest-Management.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }