Factsheet: Gender Dimensions of Climate Change

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Rural, indigenous people live in two simultaneous situations. While they have highly developed capabilities for management of biodiverse natural resources, they are lodged in a discriminated, excluded existence, away from the centre stage of economic and technological change. Their ecological systems are largely stressed by corporate control of resources, coupled with a general disregard of their knowledge.

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Geographic coverage: Asia and the Pacific India
Resource type(s): Position papers
Publication year
2011
Number of pages
2