Challenging Perceptions about Men, Women, and Forest Product Use: A Global Comparative Study

• DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.03.003
• Publication Date: 2014-03-27T03:16:26Z
• Authors: Terry Sunderland; Ramadhani Achdiawan; Arild Angelsen; Ronnie Babigumira; Amy Ickowitz; Fiona Paumgarten; Victoria Reyes-Ga...; Gerald Shively
• Keywords: Forest product; Tropical forest

This study uses a multi-case dataset to question current assumptions about the gender differentiation of forest product use. We test some commonly held ideas on how men and women access, manage, use different products. Overall, we found significant in collection products, which seems support claim that there are distinctive "male" "female" roles associated with However, also play much more important diverse role contribution products rural livelihoods than previously reported, strong differences across tropical Asia, Africa, Latin America.