Deforestation and Women’s Work Burden in the Eastern Himalayas, India: Insights from a Field Survey
Deforestation and Women’s Work Burden in the Eastern Himalayas, India: Insights from a Field Survey
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印度喜马拉雅山脉东部的森林砍伐和妇女的工作负担：实地调查的见解
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2012
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D. Mishra
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A. Mishra;D. Mishra
摘要在发展中国家的许多地方，环境退化对生计的影响是显著的。本文试图通过对印度阿鲁纳恰尔邦三个村庄的初步调查，量化森林砍伐对喜马拉雅山脉东部妇女工作负担的影响。我们的研究结果表明，虽然砍伐森林增加了妇女在与森林有关的采集和收集活动中的工作，但其净影响也通过生计经济的商业化进程来调节。虽然妇女在收集和加工森林产品方面所花的时间过多，但一些产品的商业化也导致男子更多地参与收集、销售和运输活动。结果发现，乡村森林的质量是减少妇女总劳动负担的一个重要因素。森林退化增加了妇女的工作负担，农田与房屋的距离以及对轮垦的依赖也增加了妇女的工作负担。
Abstract The effects of environmental degradation on livelihoods are significant in many parts of the developing world. This article attempts to quantify the impact of deforestation on women’s work burden in the eastern Himalayas through a primary survey in three villages of Arunachal Pradesh, a state in India. Our findings suggest that although deforestation increases women’s work in forest-related collection and gathering activities, the net impacts are also mediated through processes of commercialization of the subsistence economy. While women share a disproportionately higher work burden in terms of the time spent in collection and processing of forest products, commercialization of some products has also resulted in higher participation of men in collection, marketing, and transport activities. It was found that the quality of village forest is a strong factor in reducing women’s total work burden. Forest degradation increases the work burden of women, as does the distance of agricultural land from house, and dependence on shifting cultivation.