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Overview"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." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Richard A. SchroederPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Volume: 5 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.363kg ISBN: 9780520222335ISBN 10: 0520222334 Pages: 206 Publication Date: 01 October 1999 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Abbreviations Preface Acknowledgments Maps 1. Introduction 2. The Rise of a Female Cash Crop: A Market Garden Boom for Mandinka Women 3* Gone to Their Second Husbands: Domestic Politics and the Garden Boom 4* Better Homes and Gardens: The Social Relations of Vegetable Production 5. Branching into Old Territory: The Gender Politics of Mandinka Garden/Orchards 6. Contesting Agroforestry Interventions 7* Shady Practices Notes Works Cited IndexReviewsAuthor InformationRichard A. Schroeder is Director of African Studies and Assistant Professor of Geography at Rutgers University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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