Shady Practices Agroforestry and Gender Politics in the Gambia

Name: Shady Practices Agroforestry and Gender Politics in the Gambia
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ISBN: 9780520222335

ISBN-10: 0520222334

ISBN-13: 9780520222335

Edition: 1999

Authors: Richard A. Schroeder

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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…

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List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 206
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Richard Schroeder is Associate Professor and Chair of the Geography Department at Rutgers University. He is author of Shady Practices: Gender and Agroforestry Politics in The Gambia, and co-editor of Producing Nature and Poverty in Africa.



List of Illustrations and Tables


Abbreviations


Preface


Acknowledgments


Maps



Introduction



The Rise of a Female Cash Crop: A Market Garden Boom for Mandinka Women



Gone to Their Second Husbands: Domestic Politics and the Garden Boom



Better Homes and Gardens: The Social Relations of Vegetable Production



Branching into Old Territory: The Gender Politics of Mandinka Garden / Orchards



Contesting Agroforestry Interventions



Shady Practices


Notes


Works Cited


Index