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Women make up about 43% of the agricultural workforce in the developing world. It's estimated thatÌýif women had the same access to productive resources as men, they could raiseÌýtotal agricultural output in developing countries by 2.5% to 4%, in turn reducing the number of hungry people in the world by 12% to 17%. Moreover, women in forest communities mayÌýgenerate more than half of their income from forests.ÌýWomen are deeply involved in land use across the world. TheyÌýshape landscapes at scale,ÌýandÌýneed to be at the forefront of planning and implementation ofÌýforest landscape restoration.

Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ convened a panel of four exceptional women to discuss how the forest landscape restoration approach can help to reduce inequalities.

Cécile Bibiane Ndjebet, African Women's Network for Community Management of Forests.ÌýA social forester and gender specialist from Cameroon with extensive experience in the field, in the civil service and internationally, sharesÌýexamples on how restoration projects have failed when women were not adequately engaged in planning and implementation.

Samantha Figueroa, Member of Congress of Guatemala.ÌýDeputy for the Department of ChimaltenangoÌýand an expert in using the political system and courts to advocate for justice for people and communities, she speaksÌýabout how indigenous women have unique knowledge to contribute to restoration programmes.

Lorena Aguilar,ÌýRegional Coordinator, International Cooperation and Research for the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences former Vice-Minister of Foreign AffairsÌý(Costa Rica), and former Director of the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ Governance and RightsÌýProgrammeÌýspeaksÌýabout the differentiated impacts of forest loss on women and which avenues should be taken to engage them.

Tangu Tumeo, formerly Principal Forestry Adviser, Ministry of Natural Resources, Energy and Mining, Department of Forestry (Malawi) speaks about her role in getting the government of Malawi to adopt a gender-responsive lens to its national forest landscape restorationÌýassessment process.

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