ABSTRACT

This chapter introduces key terms, notes relevant features of a rapidly changing global context and summarises the lessons that have been drawn from gender research and development practice that have implications for efforts to manage agro-biodiversity sustainably. Three case studies, from Peru, southwest China and the United Kingdom, then serve to illustrate six common components of landscape scale efforts to conserve and develop agro-biodiversity in ways that seek to transform ‘business as usual’ while also benefiting and empowering women.