She has experience in rural development, archeology, and environmental health and has authored over 40 publications on these topics. Let's take an example from the use of wildlife. It is usually assumed that men are the ones who fish, the ones who need to be reached to make fishing practices sustainable. As a result, conservation efforts in this area are focused on them. But women also fish, typically for domestic purposes.
Women are also very involved in the processing of fish.
This is important because conservation has to focus on a whole chain of activities, not just one isolated activity. The entire chain needs to be addressed before you can achieve your goals, and the whole set of actors, both men and women, need to be targeted. We're talking about the appropriate distribution of control over natural resources. And it's not just a women's issue. There are many poor communities of men and women that have little power over the natural resources that surround them.