Gender and land use planning in agroforestry farm households: a case study in Bogra District, Bangladesh
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2007
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Asian Insitute of Technology, School of Environment, Resources and Development, Bangkok, TH
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The research demonstrates that while natural resource management projects may consider gender issues, they are narrowly applied to women’s daily lives. Newly introduced agroforestry practices were not effectively employed in this case study, and traditional cultivation practices remained. While women were more active in the project, decision making on land use remained controlled by husbands and fathers-in-law. Women’s workloads increased as a result of the project and there was no joint sharing of productive and reproductive responsibilities. Gender issues in the project were confined to awareness raising on domestic violence without integrating gender issues of access to, and control of resources.
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Thesis, Master of Science in Gender and Development Studies, Asian Insitute of Technology, School of Environment, Resources and Development, 2008
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NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT, RURAL WOMEN, WOMEN FARMERS, ACCESS TO RESOURCES, GENDER DISCRIMINATION, AGROFORESTRY, LAND RIGHTS, LIVELIHOODS, GENDER ANALYSIS, BANAGLADESH, SOUTH ASIA