CEDAW/C/1996/3/Add.4 English Page 5 Women, natural resource management and environment 14. A draft study, entitled "The role of indigenous women in generic resources management in Guatemala", was undertaken in areas where varieties of maize have been domesticated and adapted by small-scale farmers. A second study, entitled "Study on the access of indigenous populations in Bolivia and Mexico to ecological and productive resources", has been planned to look at the genderdifferentiated access to forests and crop land, as well as community and family labour organization for the exploitation of these resources. 15. In response to the interest expressed by the Government of the Netherlands, a mission was undertaken to Zimbabwe to formulate a gender-sensitive project on "Development of indigenous technical knowledge and practices for natural resources management and household security in communal areas". The project aims to produce an institutional mechanism and research methodology for the development and eventual incorporation of indigenous technologies and practices into the policies, programmes and action plans of the Ministry of Environment and Tourism and the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture and Water Resources Development. 16. In 1994-1995, the Forestry Policy and Planning Division published a document entitled "Guidelines: Integrating gender considerations into FAO forestry projects" in all FAO languages. Moreover, gender is given close attention in all publications and audio-visuals of the Division. Examples include the following, released in 1994-1995: "Common forest resource management" (an annotated bibliography of sources on Africa, Asia and Latin America); "Introducing community forestry" (an annotated list of topics and readings); a field manual on "Tree and land tenure: Rapid appraisal tools"; and a video entitled What is a tree? The Forest Resources Division, in 1994, published a summary technical text on "The challenge of sustainable forest management: what future for the world’s forests?" The book highlights forest product based income generating opportunities for women as well as men. A second volume with individual papers on this subject is forthcoming. 17. In Myanmar, the Division on Women and People’s Participation in Development is assisting four projects funded by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) as part of the Human Development Initiative, all with a natural resource management and gender focus: on the sustainable development of mangrove areas, community fuelwood lots, low-input agriculture, and environmental rehabilitation of the country’s dry zone. Women, population and environment 18. A roundtable of experts on women, population and environment in south-east Asia was held at the FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, 2-6 May 1994, out of which came a report entitled "Environment, women and population: Technical issues and policy guidelines for agricultural and rural development in South-East Asia". A population education manual for outreach workers was developed and published in 1994 by the Institute for Population and Development, Manila, under FAO’s technical guidance. The manual provides a wide range of methods for integrating gender-sensitive population messages in ongoing non-formal education and training programmes in rural areas. /...