Nelson, Valerie ORCID: 0000-0003-1075-0238 , Morton, John ORCID: 0000-0002-8013-5794 , Forsythe, Lora ORCID: 0000-0001-9931-4453 , Martin, Adrienne ORCID: 0000-0001-9305-7302 and Hartog, Maaike (2015) Achieving dryland women's empowerment: environmental resilience and social transformation. UNCCD, UNDP, Greenwich.

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Abstract

Thematic study 3: Achieving dryland women's Empowerment: Environmental resilience and social transformation found that there are major opportunities to strengthen the resilience of dryland environments and for women to actively contribute to and benefit from sustainable drylands development. For example, investment is needed in climate adaptation, livestock development, education and health services, and social protection programmes, amongst others. Such approaches should build upon the structural variability of drylands, value local knowledge and adaptive pastoral systems and improve the recognition of women – their knowledge, roles, contributions and interests, increase women's representation in decision-making and redistribute resources in more equitable ways.

Item Type:	Other
Additional Information:	Thematic Paper 3 in the series 'Women's empowerment in the drylands'
Uncontrolled Keywords:	women, gender, drylands, environment, resilience, rights
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Engineering & Science > Natural Resources Institute > Livelihoods & Institutions Department
Related URLs:	Organisation
Last Modified:	03 Aug 2020 06:58
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/14518

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