ABSTRACT
For centuries the collection, the users and sometimes the production of agrofuels (for cooking, crop processing and lighting, in their own households and sometimes for local sale) has been mainly something done by rural women (and male and female children). This chapter focuses, however, on the gender dimensions of the expansion of new forms of large-scale, corporate production of agrofuels destined for commercial use and consumption in distant places.
Combining feminist political ecology and agrarian studies perspectives, we survey the (still quite scarce and scattered) available research on the direct and indirect implications of corporate agrofuels expansion for shifts in gendered power and labour relations, access to resources and livelihoods, incorporation in new production regimes and gendered responses to these changes.
