Las Luchas del Corazón

Excerpt from the environmental bit:

First, some sobering bits of information from the report. Many rural poor people depend overwhelmingly on natural resources for their income. This is important because how environmental degradation will affect people depends on whether they are net producers or net consumers of natural resources, whether they produce for subsistence or for the market and how readily they can shift between these activities and diversify their livelihoods with other occupations. And for women, these connections are particularly acute:

-   Today, around 350 million people, many of them poor, live in or near forests on which they rely for subsistence and incomes. Both deforestation and restrictions on access to natural resources can hurt the poor. Evidence from a range of countries suggests that women typically rely on forests more than men do because women tend to have fewer occupational options, be less mobile and bear most of the responsibility for collecting fuelwood.

-   Around 45 million people — at least 6 million of them women — fish for a living and are threatened by overfishing and climate change. The vulnerability is twofold: the countries most at risk also rely the most on fish for dietary protein, livelihoods and exports.

-   To the extent that women in poor countries are disproportionately involved in the most disadvantaged subsistence farming and water collection, they face greater adverse consequences of environmental degradation.