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ENERGIA News 1, December 1996 – Energy for Women and Women for Energy: A proposal for women’s energy entrepreneurship

It is well known that women usually bear the burden of providing biomass fuels for daily domestic use. Less well known is the extent to which human energy is an essential element in the household economy. The results of a case study of a typical village in Karnataka, India, can be used to demonstrate this.…

1st December 1996
Gender and wood energy

This special edition of Wood Energy News on ‘Gender and Wood Energy’ focuses on a number of issues: it aims to answer why gender in wood energy development is important to take into account, presents gender analysis tools, describes the institutionalisation of the gender approach, country papers on gender and wood energy, and presents the…

1st July 1995
ENERGIA News 1, December 1996 – From Rio to Beijing: Engendering the energy debate

New perspectives in the energy sector adopted at the Rio Conference, and new approaches to gender issues discussed at the Beijing Conference, are especially congenial to the adoption of a gender approach in energy policy and planning at this time. This article suggests that mutual concerns in energy fora and gender circles, jointly addressed, could…

1st June 1995

ENERGIA News 1, December 1996 – Energy for Women and Women for Energy: A proposal for women’s energy entrepreneurship