Based on an extensive literature and illustrated by a field survey of two Forest User Groups in
Nepal, this paper explores how participation in community forestry is affected by social status
and more so by gender. Looking more specifically at gender differences, the paper presents the
reasons and the ways in which women, despite the current rhetoric, remain excluded from any
meaningful participatory process.
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