Women Reclaiming Sustainable Livelihoods: Spaces Lost, Spaces Gained (Gender, Development and Social Change)

This volume highlights women's work sustaining local economies and environments, particularly in response to the current food, fuel and climate crises. It includes women's role in the green entrepreneurship, women's reproductive and productive work in the care economy, and a further examination of eco feminist debates. At a time when the world is reeling from multiple economic and ecological crises, an international cast of ecologists and gender specialists from the Global North and Global South provide a multidisciplinary perspective on gender, sustainability, and livelihoods. With the 20 year review of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development to be held in Brazil in 2012, this book boldly reclaims the concept of sustainable livelihoods for women. Authors from 10 different countries show how women engage in policy decision on climate change and consumptions, managing solidarity economies, farming, micro credit, value chains, and strategies in post-conflict contexts Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Women Reclaiming Sustainable Livelihoods: An Introduction....Pages 1-11 Redefining Sustainable Livelihoods....Pages 12-18 Front Matter....Pages 19-19 Women Advocating for Sustainable Livelihoods and Gender Equality on the Global Stage....Pages 21-41 Towards Gender Equality in Global Sustainable Consumption and Production Agreements....Pages 42-61 Gender Equality in Certified Agricultural Value Chains....Pages 62-82 Global Agricultural Policies, Institutional Interventions, and Women’s Livelihoods....Pages 83-100 Global Institutions Try to Get It Right: An Insider’s Perspective....Pages 101-106 Front Matter....Pages 107-107 Your Caring Sharing Co-op: Women, Work and Sustainability in a Polanyian Paradigm....Pages 109-124 Gender and Sustainable Livelihoods in India: ‘Side Stream’/‘Mainstream’....Pages 125-141 The Dream Merchants Have No Clothes: Women’s Rights and Empowerment in the Microfinance Regime....Pages 142-161 The Cost of Peace: Exploring Opportunities for Women’s Livelihoods in Post-conflict Settings....Pages 162-179 Sustaining Women’s and Community Livelihoods in Rural Tanzania....Pages 180-190 Sustainable Livelihoods and Gender in the Marginal Alpine Communities of Trentino....Pages 191-212 Indigenous Women Claiming Their Land....Pages 213-219 Front Matter....Pages 219-219 Biocapital, Biopolitics and Biosocialities: Reframing Health, Livelihoods and Environments with New Genetics and Biotechnology....Pages 221-237 Gender and Sustainable Livelihoods in Urban Honiara....Pages 238-256 Gender and Climate Justice....Pages 257-265 Epilogue: Green-Washing Warnings....Pages 266-268 Back Matter....Pages 269-275 'This volume illustrates the breadth and depth of engaged scholarship and critical practice in gender, sustainable development and livelihoods. It carries an urgent and timely message given the converging food, energy and climate change crises and the rising voices of warning, protest and alternative visions from women and gender activists throughout the world. I highly recommend it to all those engaged in understanding the complexity and multifaceted nature of development, including global and local markets, as well as cultural negotiations of political, economic and environmental change.' - Dianne Rocheleau Professor of Geography, Clark University, USA