TY  - GEN
T1  - Shady practices : agroforestry and gender politics in the Gambia
T2  - California studies in critical human geography ;
A1  - Schroeder, Richard A.
LA  - English
PP  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
YR  - 1999
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm45731629
AB  - "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."--Provided by publisher
OP  - 172
CN  - DT509.45.M34 S37 1999eb
SN  - 9780520924475
SN  - 0520924479
SN  - 058528895X
SN  - 9780585288956
SN  - 0520216873
SN  - 0520222334
SN  - 9780520216877
SN  - 9780520222335
KW  - Mandingo (African people) : Agriculture.
KW  - Mandingo (African people) : Social conditions.
KW  - Women, Mandingo : Economic conditions.
KW  - Division of labor : Gambia : Alkalikunda.
KW  - Patriarchy : Gambia : Alkalikunda.
KW  - Agroforestry : Gambia : Alkalikunda.
KW  - Sex role : Political aspects : Gambia : Alkalikunda.
KW  - Forest ecology : Gambia : Alkalikunda.
KW  - Alkalikunda (Gambia) : Social life and customs.
KW  - Mandingue (Peuple d'Afrique) : Agriculture.
KW  - Mandingue (Peuple d'Afrique) : Conditions sociales.
KW  - Division du travail : Gambie : Alkalikunda.
KW  - Patriarcat (Sociologie) : Gambie : Alkalikunda.
KW  - Agroforesterie : Gambie : Alkalikunda.
KW  - Rôle selon le sexe : Aspect politique : Gambie : Alkalikunda.
KW  - Écologie forestière : Gambie : Alkalikunda.
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS : Industries : Agribusiness.
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING : Agriculture : Sustainable Agriculture.
KW  - SCIENCE : Earth Sciences : Geography.
KW  - Patriarchy : Gambia.
KW  - Agroforestry : Gambia.
KW  - Women farmers : Gambia.
KW  - Sex role : Political aspects : Gambia.
KW  - Gambia : Politics and government : 1965-
KW  - Agroforestry
KW  - Division of labor
KW  - Forest ecology
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Patriarchy
KW  - Sex role : Political aspects
KW  - Gambia : Alkalikunda
ER  -