LA JUSTICE DE GENRE ET LA GESTION COMMUNAUTAIRE DES FORÊTS

The report argues that gender justice is inseparable from community forest management (CFM), as patriarchal and capitalist systems jointly oppress women and degrade the environment. It highlights how extractivism—including agribusiness and mining—displaces women, erodes their ancestral knowledge, and increases violence against them. The document emphasizes that women are central to CFM through their roles in care work, seed preservation, and biodiversity conservation, yet they face systemic barriers to land ownership and decision-making. It calls for the recognition of women's land rights and the valuation of their unpaid care work as fundamental steps toward social and environmental justice.

• The document posits that modern dichotomous thinking creates a hierarchy between humans and non-humans, rooted in structural racism and colonial logic, which leads to the devaluation of nature and harmful consequences for women and their territories.
• Extractivist models—including agribusiness, monocultures (such as oil palm and soy), and mining—contribute to the climate crisis and biodiversity loss while specifically targeting women's bodies and territories through violence, militarization, and the loss of food sovereignty.
• Women perform the vast majority of unpaid care work globally—over three-quarters of such activities—including childcare, elderly care, and the collection of water and firewood, yet this work remains invisible and undervalued within the dominant capitalist model.
• Despite their central role in food production (60-80% in non-industrialized countries) and forest conservation, women face severe disparities in land ownership, with only 30% of rural women worldwide owning agricultural land.
• Women possess specialized and crucial knowledge of forest species, agrobiodiversity, and medicinal plants, which are essential for food security and the preservation of life, but this knowledge is often erased by 'masculinized' agricultural discourses.
• The 'masculinization' of territories, driven by extractivist industries, reorganizes local life around hegemonic masculinity, leading to increased domestic violence, human trafficking, and the criminalization of women human rights defenders.

APA

Guillen, C. R. (2022). LA JUSTICE DE GENRE ET LA GESTION COMMUNAUTAIRE DES FORÊTS. Friends of the Earth International. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/La-justice-de-genre-et-la-gestion-communautaire-des-forets.pdf

Chicago

Guillen, Claudia Ramos. LA JUSTICE DE GENRE ET LA GESTION COMMUNAUTAIRE DES FORÊTS. Friends of the Earth International, 2022. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/La-justice-de-genre-et-la-gestion-communautaire-des-forets.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{guillen2022justice, author = {Guillen, Claudia Ramos}, title = {{LA JUSTICE DE GENRE ET LA GESTION COMMUNAUTAIRE DES FORÊTS}}, institution = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2022}, url = {https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/La-justice-de-genre-et-la-gestion-communautaire-des-forets.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }