Dynamic youth and wise women meet in the mountains
Devrek Güneşi is a rural development cooperative whose members are all women. The cooperative has been working in Devrek (Zonguldak/Turkey) and the surrounding villages for about ten years. The cooperative, which processes and sells the natural products found in the mountain forests in the region and the products formed by the contribution of these mountain forests to agriculture and animal husbandry, contributes to rural development. On the other hand, the cooperative supports its female members' education and personal development.
As Bartın University Forestry Club, we will go to Devrek (Zonguldak/TURKEY) to examine the work of Devrek Güneşi Women's Cooperative on-site to exchange ideas on women's participation in forestry and rural development on December 7, 2022. Thus, on the one hand, it is aimed to raise awareness for women who produce in mountain forests, and on the other hand, it is aimed at dynamic young people to learn lessons from the knowledge and experiences of
these women. TUBITAK supported this event of the Forestry Club within the scope of the project numbered 120O87, "Developing a Remote Sensing-Based Algorithm for the Analysis of Turkey's Mountain Ecosystem Ecological Conditions, Land Use/Land Cover Changes and Analysis of Climate Change Adaptation Capacities".