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Women in environmental disasters: the 1991 cyclone in Bangladesh

01/02/1993

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Women in environmental disasters: the 1991 cyclone in Bangladesh

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The author is a female relief worker who has seen first-hand how women are more vulnerable than men to natural disasters, and in their aftermath. She explores why women are more likely to die in environmental disasters, and why emergency relief aid often fails to benefit women. Begum makes recommendations for ensuring that women’s needs […]

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Finding a voice

01/02/1993

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Women play a substantial role in large-scale and plantation farming. But back-breaking work and the use of toxic pesticides can seriously harm their health. ‘PAN Asia and the Pacific’ organised a workshop in Malaysia for women to discuss this problem. The article outlines background information about women’s agricultural work in Asia. It also presents the […]

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After the fisheries: the story of Sinalhan

01/02/1993

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After the fisheries: the story of Sinalhan

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Laguna Lake in the Philippines is in a state of decay, due to Government and foreign intervention. Women in Sinalhan community are suffering reduced incomes and status, as they can no longer sell and process fish, or invest in fishing equipment. These women are forced into alternative work such as laundering, which is physically demanding […]

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Sustainable development: women as partners

01/02/1993

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Sustainable development: women as partners

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Dem explores how Oxfam’s work in rural areas can adapt its approach to meet the needs of urban women. She uses the example of Senegal’s economic crisis of the 1980s that plunged many women in urban areas into poverty. Sustainable development in this case meant women organising themselves and working together to actively determine their […]

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Environment and women in Uganda: the way I see it

01/02/1993

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Environment and women in Uganda: the way I see it

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Adoko’s argument is that projects to protect the environment should not be made the responsibility of poor women, particularly since it is not women – or poor people – who are destroying the environment. In the case of tree planting in Uganda, women are burdened with collecting water for saplings, whilst important gender issues such […]

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Women in the Eastern Province: more hit by drought and yet more enduring

01/02/1993

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Women in the Eastern Province: more hit by drought and yet more enduring

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In response to the 1992 drought in the Eastern province of Zambia, Oxfam held four community workshops in which local people decided upon action to address their most urgent needs. Hundreds of women attended our four workshops in the worst hit areas of Petauke and Nyimba: Luembe, Nyalugwe, Kalindawalo and Mwape. The women who came […]

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Background to the drought

01/02/1993

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In response to the 1992 drought in the Eastern province of Zambia, Oxfam held four community workshops in which local people decided upon action to address their most urgent needs. Reports from these workshops show how women suffer in times of drought, walking vast distances in search of food and water for their families. But […]

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Women’s relationship with the environment

01/02/1993

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Women’s relationship with the environment

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This article examines how women use natural resources in urban and rural areas; how women’s interests have been harmed by environmental changes; and how they are responding. Although women cultivate the land for food and to earn a living intensive farming methods damage soil fertility, making women more prone to poverty. However women’s groups are […]

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Environmental change and quality of life

01/02/1993

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Environmental change and quality of life

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How do farmers see environmental changes affecting their family’s well-being? How are they trying to cope with and improve the situation? What can outsiders do to support them in these efforts? These questions were addressed in the March 1992 issue of ILEIA Newsletter, a journal of the Information Centre for Low External Input in Sustainable […]

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Looking for a regenerative approach to sustainability

01/02/1993

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Looking for a regenerative approach to sustainability

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Attempts at ‘sustainable development’ often fail to take into account the different needs of men and women with regard to the environment. Redclift argues that a regenerative approach to development is needed, as current approaches only serve to reinforce gender inequalities. She considers this alternative in relation to women and rights over the environment, energy […]

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