Women should be given greater role in forest management: activists

CIFOR scientist, Esther Mwangi gives her comment on women role in forest management. "It is worrying that despite women's increasingly recognized contribution to forest management, they are not yet at the forefront of forestry decision-making." Women are the main users of forests in developing countries gathering food and firewood but they continue to be sidelined in how the forests are managed despite years of efforts to mainstream their involvement.

The article also appears in China Daily, istockanalyst and society of American forester webpage at http://www.istockanalyst.com/business/news/4929429/women-should-be-given-greater-role-in-forest-management-activists.