Heavy reliance on CPRs thus makes poor women particularly vulnerable to their egradation, depletion, appropriation and/or conversion to other uses. Women, who often are not llowed to own land, make particular use of the resources found in CPRs for household purposes. Depletion of these resources means that women will need to walk further to collect water and fire wood, etc. Women and men tend to use different aspects of CPRs. Where women do not have the oice to directly influence decisions affecting the uses of CPRs, their exclusion from decision-making an result in resource uses which negatively affect them
