Gender Dimension in Biodiversity Management Home Rural women in developing countries hold the key to many of the planet's agricultural systems for food production, seed selection and protection of agrobiodiversity.
Women using diverse wild and indigenous species often use home gardens as experimental plots.
Gender analysis deals with the socially constructed roles and relationships among men and women in their day today activities. There is widespread misunderstanding of the distinction between gender analysis and exclusively women-centred approaches. Hence, there is often the tendency to focus on women separately, rather than on the relations between men and women. Report submitted to FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand.