Gender Integration
Across Africa, women play critical land and natural resource management roles. However, these roles are typically unrecognized or undervalued. Minorities and disadvantaged groups are also integral to local conservation constituencies.
- Growing evidence points to better governance and conservation outcomes when fisheries and forests are managed collaboratively by women and men
- Gender-equal access to agricultural resources could increase the average woman farmer’s crop yieldsby up to 30%.
- More equitable involvement of men and women in forest management leads to significantly greater improvements in forest conditions, research shows.
- Nations with higher proportions of women in legislatures are more likely to ratify environmental treatiesthan other nations.