Shady Practices: Agroforestry and Gender Politics in The GambiaUniversity of California Press, 01/10/1999 - 206 من الصفحات Shady 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. |
المحتوى
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 |
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Africa agricultural agroforestry agroforestry systems Al-Haji Banjul basis benefits Carney and Watts cash gifts cash-crop changes claims dalasis development agencies domestic donors drought dry season ecofeminism ecofeminist ecological economic efforts environment farmers favor female labor feminist fence forestry funds Gambia's North Bank garden boom garden districts garden group garden incomes garden perimeters groundnut grown horticultural household husbands irrigation Jabara Jowara Kerewan garden livelihoods loan located low-lying land Lower Baddibu male landholders Mandinka Mandinka society mango market gardeners material millet MMAP nature NGOs North Bank Division North Bank garden percent political political ecology practices promoted responsibilities rice Rocheleau rural Gambia sample Sanyang Sanyang garden Schroeder seedlings Senegal shift social sources strategies survey tion tree crops tree planting United Nations Upper Baddibu usufruct vegetable growers village wives woman women gardeners women's group World Bank
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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...