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Uganda were also transformed intosugarcane plantation for fuel. 24• Contamination of indigenous landsand species. Introduction of GE treesfor fuel production is very risky to nativeforests. Contamination of native treesand other traditional plants could becatastrophic 25 especially to indigenouswomen. Among indigenous women,this implies increasing dependence onother product and service providers,i.e., pharmaceutical companies andcontemporary experts for healthcare.“We cannot give birth toland. If men sell the landfor plantations, where mustour children live?”- by a West Papuanwoman participating in the3rd Congress of AMAN,Jakarta, Indonesia,June 2007.(Quoted by Anggraini, Devi op.Cit.)Endnotes:1 MADRE, “A Women’s Rights-based Approach to Climate Change,” p. 2.2 WEDO and IUCN, “Gender Equality and Adaptation,” Penned by Ariana Araujo and AndreaQuesada-Aguilar, in collaboration with Lorena Aguilar and Rebecca Pearl.3 Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary, Tiempo-Issue 47, “Gender and Climate Change,” , accessed on April 1, 2008.4 WEDO and IUCN, “Gender Equality and Adaptation.”5 Indigenous Information Network, Africa Indigenous Women’s Regional workshop onbiodiversity, Traditional Knowledge and Women’s Rights in Africa. IIN. 2007, p. 121.6 MADRE, “A Women’s Rights-based Approach to Climate Change,” p. 2.7 Genanet, Female, male, sustainable: Towards a gender equitable future, p. 9.8 IUCN, “Gender and Climate Change,” penned by Lorena Aguilar, Ariana Araujo and AndreaQuesada-Aguilar.9 MADRE, “A Women’s Rights-based Approach to Climate Change,” p. 2.10 IUCN, “Gender and Climate Change.”11 Ibid.12 Ibid., p. 13.13 Indigenous Information Network, p. 78.14 AIWN, AMAN and Rights and Democracy, Portrait of the Indigenous Women in Asia, 2007,Sheet 3, p. 3.15 APFWLD, Workshop on Indigenous Women, 2002, p. 86.16 Indigenous Information Network, p. 55.17 MRG, State of the World’s Minorities 2008, pp. 12-13.18 Op. Cit.19 Ibid.20 AIWN, AMAN and Rights and Democracy, Sheet 3, p. 4.21 MADRE, “Deforestation, Climate Change, and Women’s Human Rights,” p. 2.22 Dr. Rachel Smolker Brian Tokar, Anne Petermann and Eva Hernadez, The True Cost ofAgrofuels: Food, Forest and the Climate, 2007, p. 35.23 Ibid., p. 55.24 Indigenous Information Network, p. 77.25 Ibid., p. 5.116 <strong>Guide</strong> on Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples