The workshop highlighted the importance of understanding the differentiated impacts of climate change on institutions and gender relations, particularly concerning land and resource rights. It emphasized the need to document and protect existing institutional arrangements that support equitable gender relations and to recognize women's agency in negotiating access to resources. Additionally, the discussions underscored the necessity of addressing local power dynamics and inequities to foster effective adaptation strategies for vulnerable populations.

1. Workshop on Gender and
environmental change
IIED 17-18 March 2014
Session 3. Land and resource rights: the
forgotten issue in environmental
change
debates?

2. some key messages from CIFOR
research
1. We need to unpack environmental and
climate change in terms differentiated impacts
on institutions and institutional arangement
• Example: Climate change induced men
migration which result in a significant shifts in
institutions and social relations, right and
access  new challenges and opportunities
for the most vulnerable/women: Iklan and
Illelan women in northern Mali

3. THINKING beyond the canopy
History of intervention
and policy:
Sedentarisation which
ignored existing adapted
systems based on
mobility, flexibility and
institutional reciprocity in
access and right
Drying out of the Lake
Faguibine (90ies)
Differentiated women’s
adaptive capacities
Source: Nasa

4. 2. History of intervention and policy which
ignored existing adapted systems based on
mobility, flexibility and institutional reciprocity
in access and right and more autonomy for
women
Adaptation not only to environmental changes
but also to negative impacts of past
interventions and policies

5. 3. We need to document, protect and reinforce
the already existing institutional tenure
arrangements which advantage equitable
gender relations
Examle: tree tenure versus land tenure in the
Sahel

6. Fruits sur l’arbre
Fruits récoltés
L’espace
d’implantation du
néré
Aînée G. des
Epouses
Chacune des
épouses lignage
Chef du lignage ou du
ménage
PARTIES DU NERE RESPONSABLE
DECISIONS
MODE GESTION
Collectif/Epouses du
lignage
Individuel/Epouse du
ménage
Collégial ou
non/Chef lignage
ou ménage
Trees in landscapes (agroforestry parklands) allow equitable gender
outcomes, compared to cash crops.
Global market (Shea butter) and agriculture policies (cash crops ) are
shifting access right

7. 4. Women are not passive victims of inequitable
land tenure they create social space for
negotiation. Women develop their own strategies
and mechanism to overcome barriers and limits.
We need to understand and reinforce those
strategies
Examples:
– Shift in livestock as an asset to over come access
barriers for women
– Reciprocity in exchanging assets (human assets to
social asset Assets

8. 5. Dichotomies in concept and approaches
(men/women, state/ communities.
Example: Intra community inequities in term of
access are crucial too (local authorities, gender,
migrants..etc). In terms of access and right
addressing contextual local power relations and
trajectories of changes (processes) is crucial.