Women and the Environment in the Third World Alliance for the future Sustainable Development Set Series

'This book ... should be issued to grass-root organisations everywhere' Doris Lessing, The New Scientist
'It is must reading for government planners, environmentalists and the ordinary layman' Asia Week
Women in the Third World play the major role in managing natural resources. They are also the first and hardest hit by environmental mismanagement, yet they are neither consulted nor taken into account by development strategists.
lrene Dankelman and Joan Davidson provide a clear account of the problems faced by women in the management of land, water, forests, energy and human settlements. They also describe the lack of response from international organizations. With the help of well-documented case studies they describe the ways in which women can organize to meet environmental, social and economic challenges.

Originally published in 1988

Dedication
Authors' Preface
Foreword by The Hon. Mrs Victoria Chitepo
Introduction: Women have something to say
Part I Women, Environment and Natural Resources
1. why Women?
2. Land: Women at the Centre of the Food Crisis
Case Studies: Women and soybeans in Togo, West Africa
The Pinabetal Women's Organization, Mexico
The Vacaria Project, Brazil
Tribal women in Iran
Golgotta Settlement, Ethiopia
3. The Invisible Water Managers
Case Studies: The women's dam, Burkina Faso
Water for health in Kenya
Water for Rochina, Brazil
Canal hurts Colombian women
4. Women and Forests: Fuel, Food and Fooder
Case Studies: The story of Gadkharkh village, India
The Ghorepani Project, Nepal
Women in forestry, Kenya
5. Women's Energy Crisis
Case Studies: Africa : a Woman from Ghana
The life of Ione Halley, Guyana
Mombamba Women's Group, Kenya
6. Human Settlements: Women's Environment of Poverty
Case Studies: A child of Delhi
The women of Bhopal
Invisible Women: Purdah in Pakistan
Squatter Upgrading, Lusaka, Zambia
Women's Construction Collective, Jamaica
Baldia Soakpit Project, Karachi, Pakistan
Urban agriculture, Lusaka, Zambia
Part II Women and Environmental Conservation
7. Women Working for Conservation
Interviews: Vandana Shiva, India
Maria Jos Guazzelli, Brazil
Shimwaayi Muntemba, Zambia
8. Training Women
Case Studies: Training and technology in Senegal
Instraw
Pakistani women visit India
9. Planning the Family: A Woman's Choice?
Case Study: Planned parenthood and women's development
10. Women Organize Themselves
Case Studies: Green Belt Movement, Kenya
Acdo Democr tica Feminina Gaticha, Brazil
Women Promote Appropriate Technology, Guyana
ORAP, Zimbabwe
11. The International Response
Case Study: Luangwa Project, Zambia
12. Working Together for the Future
References
Abbreviations
Resource Organizations
Contributors
Index