Gender and alternate land use systems

Abstract

Environmental degradation, global warming, shortage of fuel and fodder are some of the important issues which have received the recent attention of the scientists, environmentalist, planners and others throughout the world. The situation is alarming in semi-arid areas. Where due to erratic rainfall and excess biotic activity the degradation of soil and environment are fast taking place. The strategy to check the degradation without adversely affecting the productivity. Forestry and Agro forestry are the solution that arrest degradation and improvement of forage and fuel wood productivity. Agro forestry has a major role to play in many ways. Agricultural land degradation has an impact on the production capacities of families and thus on women of those families. Women wrested with collection of fuel and fodder has to spend more hours on these activities, still, further suffer due to deforestation and land degradation.