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Journal of 149 Volume 149 February 2018 ISSN 0140-1963 Arid Environments ) 2018 ( 149 Vol. Arid Environments Journal of Volume 149 February 2018 Special Issue on Women in Drylands: Barriers and Benefits for Sustainable Livelihoods Guest Editors: Dr Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder and Dr Avigail Morris Contents Women in Drylands: Barriers and Benefi ts for Exploring the potential of household methodologies to Sustainable Livelihood strengthen gender equality and improve smallholder Abu-Rabia-Queder, S. & Morris, A. 1 livelihoods: Research in Malawi in maize-based Vulnerability of women to climate change in arid and systems semi-arid regions: The case of India and South Asia Farnworth, C.R. , Stirling, C.S. , Chinyophiro, A. , Yadav, S.S. & Lal, R. 2 Namakhoma, A. & Morahan, R. 51 Women's food security and conservation farming in The connective strategies of Bedouin women Zaka District-Zimbabwe entrepreneurs in the Negev Hove, M. & Gweme, T. 16 Biernacka, A. , Abu-Rabia-Queder, S. & Kressel, G.M. 60 Purdah, purse and patriarchy: The position of women in the Raika shepherd community in Rajasthan (India) The suburbanization of rural life in an arid and rocky Köhler-Rollefson, I. 28 village in western Turkey Hart, K. 71 Warlpiri experiences highlight challenges and opportunities for gender equity in Indigenous The economy of survival: Bedouin women in conservation management in arid Australia unrecognized villages Davies, J. , Walker, J. & Maru, Y.T. 38 Abu-Rabia-Queder, S. , Morris, A. & Ryan, R. 78 Special Issue: Women in Drylands: Barriers and Benefi ts for Sustainable Livelihoods The Internet home page for Journal of Arid Environments can be found at: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jaridenv Abstracted/indexed in: Abstracts and citation database SCOPUS®. 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Journal of Arid Environments 149 (2018) 1–3 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Arid Environments journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jaridenv Editorial fi Women in Drylands: Barriers and Bene ts for Sustainable Livelihoods T Arid regions are most often characterized as geographical areas which lack environmental resources for a secure livelihood. As a result, many communities living in the arid areas of the world suffer from conditions of poverty and economic crises. Women from poor and less developed countries are those who usually pay the price of unequal access to natural and economic resources. Their inferiority is not only manifested in economic marginality but also intersects with other aspects of inequality such as ethnicity, status, age, patriarchal order and state policies which consequently lead to multiple inequality and marginality in accessing resources for a sufficient livelihood (Figs. 1 and 2). The aim of this special issue is to highlight the livelihoods of women in arid regions focusing on both the social, political, economic and ecological barriers that women encounter and the strategies they use to overcome them. The eight papers presented in this Special Issue of Journal of Arid Environments,offer a variety of case studies from around the globe. Each article relates to different challenges/barriers that women face in providing for their families and offers a descriptive analysis of the strategies women use to adapt to and/or overcome these challenges in a changing society. A major theme which appears throughout all of the papers in this volume has been the variety of ways in which women who live in harsh arid environments rely on their cultural and ecological knowledge in an attempt to sustain both themselves and their families. Many of the barriers that they face are not only due to ecological factors but to social and political interventions such as development projects and state policies. In an attempt to improve the quality of life for women through promoting gender equality these programs and policies often misrepresent these same women and undermine cultural and ecological knowledge essential for maintaining a sustainable lifestyle. These women are frequently perceived in western literature, as culturally oppressed and as victims of patriarchy. As a result their traditional roles within their family and community are often perceived as oppressive rather than empowering. This western prism tends to place these women who practice very different lifestyles as farmers, pastoralists, and past nomads as one homogeneous group. The issue begins with Yadav and Lal’s paper which uses support from a wide range of literature to outline the severe impact of climate change on women in developing countries. Emphasis is placed not only on the hardships women face as a result of climate change but also on the ways in which many of these women are using their traditional knowledge, experience and expertise, to adjust to these ecological changes. Yadav and Lal suggest that NGOs, governments and other development organizations can and do encourage women to create “climate-smart households”, advance “eco- efficiency” through the development of traditional knowledge, reinforce social networking, and manage sustainable systems. Although