• Gender and NRM

Gender and NRM

This on-line book documents and reflects on the steps that researchers are taking to implement social and gender analysis, including questions of class, caste, and ethnicity, into their everyday work. It combines both learning experiences and scientific results, representing academic and nonacademic sectors, a variety of research organizations, and a number of natural resource management questions, including biodiversity conservation, crop and livestock improvement, and sustainable grassland development.

The learning studies from China, India, Mongolia, Nepal, and Vietnam, illustrate challenges, opportunities, successes, and disappointments, and highlight the different methods used and adapted in the diverse contexts of South and Southeast Asia. The book concludes with a comparative analysis of the learning studies, which highlights common issues and challenges.

Three main challenges are identified:

• achieving organizational change and the mainstreaming of social and gender research
• enduring dominance of men in decision making, access and control, reinforced by conservative cultural norms and political systems
• improving the quality of participation

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