Gendered Forest
Channel: Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
Date: 2013-11-04

In Ecuador's Amazon provinces of Orellana and Napo, new CIFOR research has turned an old gender stereotype on its head. The preliminary study found indigenous Kichwa women don't just work in the home and the orchard - they go with their husbands into the forest and   help to harvest timber.

To learn more, and for more stories of CIFOR's work in the Amazon, visit http://blog.cifor.org/amazon