Shady Practices: Agroforestry and Gender Politics in The GambiaShady Practices is a revealing analysis of the gendered political ecology brought about by conflicting local interests and changing developmental initiatives in a West African village. Between 1975 and 1985, while much of Africa suffered devastating drought conditions, Gambian women farmers succeeded in establishing hundreds of lucrative communal market gardens. In less than a decade, the women's incomes began outstripping their husbands' in many areas, until a shift in development policy away from gender equity and toward environmental concerns threatened to do away with the social and economic gains of the garden boom. Male landholders joined forestry personnel in attempts to displace the gardens and capture women's labor for the irrigation of male-controlled tree crops. This carefully documented microhistory draws on field experience spanning more than two decades and the insights of disciplines ranging from critical human geography to development studies. Schroeder combines the "success story" of the market gardens with a cautionary tale about the aggressive pursuit of natural resource management objectives, however well intentioned. He shows that questions of power and social justice at the community level need to enter the debates of policymakers and specialists in environment and development planning. |
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1 Introduction | 1 |
A Market Garden Boom for Mandinka Women | 21 |
Domestic Politics and the Garden Boom | 39 |
The Social Relations of Vegetable Production | 61 |
The Gender Politics of Mandinka Garden Orchards | 78 |
6 Contesting Agroforestry Interventions | 105 |
7 Shady Practices | 130 |
Notes | 137 |
Works Cited | 149 |
| 165 | |
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
activities Africa agencies agricultural agroforestry assistance Bank basis became benefits cash changes claims costs critical crops direct directly districts Division donors drought early economic effect efforts environment environmental established fact favor female fence forced funds Gambia garden boom gender groundnut growers grown horticultural household husbands important included income individual initiatives interventions involved irrigation Kerewan labor land landholders loan located major male Mandinka material meet nature needs NGOs North North Bank objectives orchard percent perimeters planting plots political position practices problems production promoted question range relations relatively responsibilities rice rural Sanyang season shift significant social specific success survey tasks tenure tion tree tree planting United vegetable village wives woman women
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة xiii - UNICEF United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund USAID United States Agency for International Development VORADEP Volta Region Agricultural Development Programme WDC Workers...
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| العنوان | Shady Practices: Agroforestry and Gender Politics in The Gambia المجلد 5 من California Studies in Critical Human Geography |
| المؤلف | Richard A. Schroeder |
| الناشر | University of California Press, 1999 |
| رقم ISBN (الرقم الدولي المعياري للكتاب) | 0520924479, 9780520924475 |
| عدد الصفحات | 206 من الصفحات |
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