GENDER, ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT GROUP WORK QUESTIONS

GROUP 1
Discuss how we can foster gender-responsive ecosystems that support green entrepreneurship
and enable women’s economic empowerment and environmental sustainability
GROUP 2
Discuss how we can create an enabling environment that foster women’s participation and
leadership in the management of environmental resources
GROUP 3
Is sustainable development a practical and feasible goal for nations? What might be some of the
difficulties and possible trade-offs? Explain your answer.
GROUP 4
What are the main ideas of environmental accounting? If practiced, what effects would you
expect to see?
GROUP 5
Discuss the feminization of poverty
GROUP 6
Explain the argument that effective agricultural policies center around the role of women
GROUP 7
The poorest farmers tend to work on farms with the poorest soil and water conditions. Do you
think this is the cause, the effect, or both? Explain
GROUP 8
What types of environmental problems do the rural and urban poor share? What are some
differences in the conditions they face?
GROUP 9
What are common property resources; what economic incentive problems do they face; and how
have some communities successfully overcome these problems?
GROUP 10
Why are national environmental concerns in developing countries likely to focus increasingly on
urban problems in the future? How are urban conditions related to rural-to-urban migration?
GROUP 11
How can gender equality be better integrated into climate change policies and programmes in
order to ensure sustainable development?
GROUP 12
What are the gender-specific barriers to the participation of women in environmental
movements?
GROUP 13
In what ways are Indigenous peoples particularly vulnerable to climate change? Describe the role
of Indigenous women in addressing the impacts of climate change.
GROUP 14
What is the relationship between policymaking, patriarchy, and climate change?
GROUP 15
How does access to water affect girls and women differently than boys and men?

This assignment is due on 27th October , every group must come ready to present and whoever
will be absent will not earn any marks. It should be typed and handed in. It will be graded out of
30 Marks. Every one should take the group work seriously because some of the discussions are
examinable.