Gender and Use of Natural Resources in Mizoram, India: An Emerging Nexus

Literally speaking, our immediate physical environmental and space are changing at apace faster than ever. Its impacts are different on genders which determine how we adapt and also can act as an agent of change. The nexus between gender and the use of natural resources in Mizoram is and will be an important agenda in determining just and equal distribution of rights apart from bringing about sustainable development both economically and environmentally in light of the spatial variation in the use of natural resources by women and to assess the contribution of women's use of natural resources on the socio-economic development of the region. Taking into consideration the limited hold over properties both private and public has no doubt limited their economic activities. But emerging market, better and new techniques of cultivation and emerging varieties of items for sale has provided an ample source of subsistence for survival especially in rural areas. But the basic understanding of the study reflects that work which involves mechanized or more rewarding values are more masculine in nature and those that involves unpaid domestic chores and labour at one's own land which are no doubt very valuable are more feminine in nature but at the end of the day distinction between gender roles at the present are not as sharp as compared to other parts of the country when it comes to natural resource use.