Entangled forests: Women’s climate action in the Brazilian Amazon and the Philippines

The project aims to support a new policy agenda that advances women’s safe, empowering and effective climate activism with leadership of women activists in tropical forests, through a transdisciplinary partnership that targets the agroforestry, bioeconomy, fossil fuel, and food systems sectors in the Brazilian Amazon and the Philippines.
Project status
Ongoing
Departments
International

Tropical forests, crucial for mitigating global climate change, are vanishing due to the demands of distant markets. They represent complex local-global entanglements of people and nature characterised by deep power asymmetries. Entangled Forests addresses this challenge by supporting a new policy agenda advancing women’s safe, empowering and effective climate activism with leadership of women activists. This will be achieved through an international transdisciplinary partnership focused on the agroforestry, bioeconomy, fossil fuel and food systems sectors the Brazilian Amazon and the Philippines to: 1) increase understanding of the experiences, constraints and opportunities for women-led climate action, 2) identify women-led climate strategies, solutions and leverage points for sectoral change in addressing escalating climate disruption, and 3) identify how this crucial activism can become safer and more effective, through an exciting and novel methodology involving social media and political economy analysis, qualitative and arts based inquiry for targeted policy and practice-based impact.

Research Team: Dr Lora Forsythe, University of Greenwich; Dr Renata Giannini, Instituto Ze Claudio and Maria; Professor Roselle L K Rivera, University of the Philippines

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