Rural Kenyan women bore the fallout of deforestation-based slow violence directly as subsistence farmers.

Evidence

Soil erosion results in part, of course, from global forms of violence—especially human-induced climate change, to which rural Kenyan women contribute little and can do very little to avert. But the desert’s steady seizure of once viable, fertile land also stems from local forms of slow violence—deforestation and the denuding of vegetation—and it was at those junctures that the Green Belt women found a way to exert their collective agency. As the drivers of the nation’s subsistence agriculture, women inhabited most directly the fallout from an environmental violence that is low in immediate drama but high in long-term consequences. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 371

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Degraded forests imposed added unpaid labor on already-dispossessed women — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 395

Broader Connections

• Degraded forests imposed added unpaid labor on already-dispossessed women #corroborates (0.95) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 395