Feminist Political Ecology

Developed from climate-activist sharing circles, this AWID zine connects ecological destruction with migration, livelihoods, care and local organizing - and asks how transnational solidarity can hold difference rather than erase it.

A FAO - GFCM study traces women’s work across the fisheries value chain and shows how gaps in official data can reproduce their exclusion.

FAO traces women’s work across food production, processing, distribution and consumption, connecting unequal resources, wages, care and shocks.

A UN guide maps the legal standards and practical barriers shaping women’s rights to own, use, control and inherit land and other productive resources.

Pamela Caro reads food sovereignty through peasant organizing and feminism, asking who controls land and seeds - and how recognizing rural women’s work can avoid fixing gendered divisions of labor.

Gonda uses climate adaptation in Nicaragua to show how feminist political ecology can return power, emotion, subjectivity, and politics to gender and climate policy.

Greta Gaard revisits ecofeminism’s contested history, distinguishing necessary critiques of gender essentialism from the wholesale dismissal of a tradition that linked gender, race, class, colonialism, species and environmental justice.

Arora-Jonsson critiques two recurring climate narratives: women as especially vulnerable and women as naturally more virtuous environmental actors.

Sherilyn MacGregor argues that climate research cannot be gender-neutral: its framing, everyday effects, and policy responses all require feminist social analysis.

Andrea J. Nightingale examines how gender is made through forestry labor, ecological rules, and unequal authority in a community-forestry case from western Nepal.

Bina Agarwal grounds gender and environmental politics in rural India's unequal access to land, forests, water, labor, and decision-making - rather than an assumed female affinity with nature.