Carol J. Pierce Colfer

ABOUT THE WRITER
Carol is an athropologist who has worked in the fields of human health, forests, livelihoods and decentralisation. Since mid-2009, she has taken on the role of Senior Associate at CIFOR, combining this with part time involvement in an integrative graduate education, research and training programme on food systems and poverty alleviation in Africa at Cornell Institute for International Food, Agriculture and Development in Ithaca, New York.
BY THIS WRITER
Interview - 30 Sep 2019
Moving forward on gender equality in forestry
Serious concern about addressing gender disparities in recent years
Interview - 30 Sep 2019
Moving forward on gender equality in forestry
Analysis - 30 Dec 2013
BEST OF 2013, POLEX: Can rural women also have it all?
Women living in tropical forests are not so different from elite women.
Analysis - 30 Dec 2013
BEST OF 2013, POLEX: Can rural women also have it all?
News - 19 Nov 2013
Are women “victims” of climate change?
The need to acknoweldge the realities that underpin the lives of women and men in the context of climate change.
News - 19 Nov 2013
Are women “victims” of climate change?
Feature - 23 Apr 2013
Can rural women also have it all? Voices of “elite women” important for truly oppressed
Elite women’s awareness of issues that affect women can have ripple effects that positively influence many non-elite women.
Feature - 23 Apr 2013
Can rural women also have it all? Voices of “elite women” important for truly oppressed
Analysis - 26 Apr 2012
Forests and women – some encouraging signs
A special issue from International Forestry Review shows green shoots in gender.
Analysis - 26 Apr 2012
Forests and women – some encouraging signs
10 Apr 2012
Health of forest people needs more attention for welfare and environment
ETNA, United States (10 April, 2012)_Better understanding of the health of forest dwellers is required to both protect their human rights and manage population...
10 Apr 2012
Health of forest people needs more attention for welfare and environment
20 Mar 2012
Harnessing the Timber Companies: Vignettes from a Year in Borneo
BOGOR, Indonesia (20 March, 2012)_Much forest research has focused on logging. Here I briefly discuss a planned, never implemented, but potentially valuable...
20 Mar 2012
Harnessing the Timber Companies: Vignettes from a Year in Borneo
Feature - 14 Mar 2012
Where there is no Doctor: Vignettes from a year in Borneo
"I imagined he would fall from the boardwalks and break something, that he would be bitten by a poisonous snake or a crocodile..."
Feature - 14 Mar 2012
Where there is no Doctor: Vignettes from a year in Borneo