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Autore |
Schroeder Richard A. |
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Shady practices : agroforestry and gender politics in the Gambia / / Richard A. Schroeder |
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Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [1999] |
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©1999 |
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1-282-35504-X |
9786612355042 |
0-520-92447-9 |
0-585-28895-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (213 p.) |
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Collana |
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California Studies in Critical Human Geography ; ; 5 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Mandingo (African people) - Agriculture |
Women, Mandingo - Economic conditions |
Electronic books. |
Alkalikunda (Gambia) Social life and customs |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- List 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 -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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