[GenderAbs] RV: Gender and Biodiversity

[Paula Zuñiga]

Dear ABS List,

The Office of the Senior Gender Adviser of IUCN and the Secretariat of the
Convention on Biological Diversity have worked together to produce 6
factsheets on subjests related to Gender and Biodiversity, such as:
Biosafety, Access and Benedit Sharing of the Genetic Resources, Agricultural
Biodiversity, National Biosidversity Strategies and Action Plans and
Biodiversity.

These publications have been posted in the Gender and Environment Website.
Hope you find thenm useful.

Best Regards,

Paula Zúñiga Díaz 
Content Manager

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IUCN, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2008).
Factsheet Mainstreaming Gender in ABS Governance. San José, Costa Rica

 

The third objective of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) seeks
“the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the
utilization of genetic resources, including by appropriate access to genetic
resources and by appropriate transfer of relevant technologies, taking into
account all rights over those resources and to technologies”. The
achievement of this goal depends on the mainstreaming of gender
considerations in ABS and TK governance.

 

http://www.generoyambiente.org/admin/admin_biblioteca/documentos/FS%20UICN%2
0ABS%20(Baja%20Resolucion).pdf 


 



IUCN, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2008).
Factsheet Linking Gender and Biodiversity. San José, Costa Rica

 

Women have a unique relationship with biodiversity and across the globe,
women predominate as wild plant gatherers, home gardeners, plant
domesticators, herbalists and seed custodians. There are many examples that
document that women and men have different uses, knowledge, and practices
concerning biodiversity. These differing relationships with biodiversity
result in gender-differentiated impacts when the abundance and composition
of the biodiversity changes. These alterations might limit women’s access
to, and control over, natural resources (i.e. land, water, cattle and trees)
and reduce their possibilities to provide their families with a proper
lifestyle.

 

http://www.generoyambiente.org/admin/admin_biblioteca/documentos/FS%20UICN%2
0Biodiversity%20(Baja%20Resolucion).pdf 


 



IUCN, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2008).
Factsheet Gender and Biosafety. San José, Costa Rica

 

It is important that the Cartagena Protocol of the Convention on Biological
Diversity recognizes that the impact of introducing GMOs could be
gender-differentiated because men and women have different knowledges, needs
and vulnerabilities. Women worldwide, and specially women from indigenous
groups and local communities, need to have access to information, skills,
equipment, regulatory frameworks, and procedures. This will allow them to
understand the issues, make informed decisions, manage, or avoid any
potential risks associated to GMOs, have the capacity to implement the
Protocol, and have an arena where their needs and concerns are heard and
valued.

 

http://www.generoyambiente.org/admin/admin_biblioteca/documentos/FS%20UICN%2
0Biosafety%20(Baja%20Resolucion).pdf 




Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity and IUCN, the
International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2008). Factsheet Gender
and Access and Benefit Sharing of Genetic Resources (ABS). San José, Costa
Rica

 

The use and development of genetic resources, if carried out without taking
into consideration the needs and practices of communities, could endanger
their livelihoods. 

 

http://www.generoyambiente.org/admin/admin_biblioteca/documentos/FS%20UICN-C
BD%20ABS%20(baja%20resolucion).pdf 


 



Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity and IUCN, the
International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2008). Factsheet Gender
and Agricultural Biodiversity. San José, Costa Rica

 

Underpinning the Convention on Biological Diversity is recognition that
humans, themselves a diversity of cultures and knowledge, are an integral
component of ecosystems as both users and managers of resources. Because it
is human management of agricultural landscapes that shapes agricultural
biodiversity, gender-based differences in knowledge and responsibilities
greatly impact management activities.

 

http://www.generoyambiente.org/admin/admin_biblioteca/documentos/FS%20UICN%2
0Biosafety%20(Baja%20Resolucion).pdf 


 



Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity and IUCN, the
International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2008). Factsheet Gender
and National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs). San José,
Costa Rica.

 

A fundamental characteristic of the NBSAPs should be the active involvement
of all social groups in their elaboration. However, in order to ensure
genuine representation, it is necessary to recognize that there is diversity
within social groups due to their sex, age, ethnic group, income,
occupations and civil status, among others. 

 

http://www.generoyambiente.org/admin/admin_biblioteca/documentos/FS%20UICN-C
BD%20NBSAPs%20(baja%20resolucion).pdf 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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