July, 2012
“Spotlight on Gender: Ensuring Poor Women Benefit from Forestland Reform in China,” is a paper written by Xiaobei Wang, China Gender Specialist for the Landesa Center for Women’s Land Rights. The paper is part of the publication called The Challenges of Securing Women’s Tenure and Leadership for Forest Management, published by Rights and Resources Initiative, which includes other articles on the status of forest tenure rights and gender rights across South and Southeast Asia.
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