ABSTRACT
Agroforestry is a form of land use and management familiar to millions of farmers and forest-dwellers throughout the world. Agroforestry systems reflect the prevailing sexual division of labor, skill, responsibility, and control within the larger society. The problems and opportunities inherent in the gender division of access to land, labor, cultivated and wild plants, and products present a special challenge to agroforesters. The process of "landscape domestication" in rural areas presents a challenge for agroforestry design and practice. Tenure is inextricably tied to the evolution and design of landscape, and to the place of women's resources and interests in the landscape. The landscape embodies spatially and over time rural people's ideas of their relation to each other and to the natural environment. Agroforestry as a "formal" science is in a unique position to learn from and to improve upon traditional knowledge and practice and to combine forces with indigenous experimental initiatives.
