Happily, on 13 September 2022 the European Parliament adopted several amendments that would strengthen the gender dimension of the legislation, including a commitment to ensure the full participation of women in partnerships and cooperation and other forms of stakeholder engagement,1 and a requirement for the Commission to continuously monitor the Regulation’s impacts on women, amongst others.2 It. [...] These Peoples, marginalised politically and economically and often denied the rights to the very land they tend to and live on, are multi-generational knowledge-keepers of agricultural practices and techniques that increase the nutritional quotient of food reduce the intensive use of pesticides and chemicals, manage wildfires, enhance the biodiversity of forests, and help reduce deforestation.9 Al. [...] They need to perform an elaborate risk assessment and provide extensive data on the products they import, including the exact location of production (which could be more than one location in the case of cattle or derived products) and the presence of forests and prevalence of deforestation in that country and area. [...] Moreover, the Parliament highlighted the need to focus the partnership approach on promoting good governance and the rights and livelihoods of forest-dependent communities and smallholders, and highlighted the need to ensure the effective participation of women in such partnerships. [...] For instance, in the Querência area of Brazil, local food supply needs have been displaced by the production and sale of agricultural products and services to meet regional demands for soybean production for export.73 There is also the case of the Guarani Kaiwoa Indigenous women who depend on the production of medicinal plants for their subsistence and are impacted by the timber and soybean indust.
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