Contents
Foreword
Section 1: Women and Natural Resource Management: An Introduction
The Contents and Who Will Use the Manual
Women: Essential Partners
The Pacific Region
Sustainable Resources: Problems
The Extent of the Problems
The Roots of the Problems
Rural Women are Especially Affected
The Task
Women, Development and Environment; Achievements to Date
Ways Forward for Society
Approaches for Specific Projects
Sensitivity to Culture
Two Stories of Environmental Degradation
Section 2: Learning From Rural Women
Why Ask Women?
What Do Rural Women Know?
What Do Rural Women Know About Their Environment?
Collecting Information and Encouraging Women to Use It
Rapid Rural Appraisal
RRA Techniques
Understanding Conflicts of Interest
Changes in the Environment
Understanding Local Institutions and Groups
Using Knowledge from an RRA
Practical Points for Carrying Out an RRA
Section 3: Case Studies in Natural Resource Management
Restoring Degraded Lands and Improving Subsistence Agriculture in Wau-Bulolo, Papua New Guinea
Women’ Leadership to Promote Possibilities for Community Forest Management
Home Gardening and Family Nutrition Project in Rarotonga, Cook Islands
An Aquaculture Project in Western Samoa
A Community Health Project in Tuvalu
Environmentally Sensitive Development Planning at Community Level in the Solomon Islands
Kolombangara Rural Electrification Programme
What the Case Studies Show
What are the Criteria for Success?
Can The Success of These Examples be Reproduced Elsewhere?
Exercises
Section 4: Conservation Techniques
Women and Conservation Technology
Sustainable Agricultural Systems in the South Pacific
Some Useful Trees for Agroforestry
Reclamation of Human Wastes and Household Organic Matter
Subsistence Fisheries in the South Pacific
Section 5: Learning Units: Women and Natural Resource Management
Learning Unit 1 – Getting to Know Each Other
Learning Unit 2 – Communication Styles
Learning Unit 3 – Objectives and Expectations
Learning Unit 4 – The Context
Learning Unit 5 – Finding the Roots of the Problems
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