LEADER 03996nam 22006615 450 001 9910496139603321 005 20220926173830.0 010 $a1-282-35504-X 010 $a9786612355042 010 $a0-520-92447-9 010 $a0-585-28895-X 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520924475 035 $a(CKB)111004366724008 035 $a(EBL)224682 035 $a(OCoLC)630528734 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000244940 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11200509 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000244940 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10174239 035 $a(PQKB)10038224 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC224682 035 $a(DE-B1597)521051 035 $a(OCoLC)45731629 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520924475 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004366724008 100 $a20200424h19991999 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aShady practices $eagroforestry and gender politics in the Gambia /$fRichard A. Schroeder 210 1$aBerkeley, CA :$cUniversity of California Press,$d[1999] 210 4$dİ1999 215 $a1 online resource (213 p.) 225 0 $aCalifornia Studies in Critical Human Geography ;$v5 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-21687-3 311 0 $a0-520-22233-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Illustrations and Tables --$tAbbreviations --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$tMaps --$t1. Introduction --$t2. The Rise of a Female Cash Crop: A Market Garden Boom for Mandinka Women --$t3. Gone to Their Second Husbands: Domestic Politics and the Garden Boom --$t4. Better Homes and Gardens: The Social Relations of Vegetable Production --$t5. Branching into Old Territory: The Gender Politics of Mandinka Garden / Orchards --$t6. Contesting Agroforestry Interventions --$t7. Shady Practices --$tNotes --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex 330 $aShady Practices is a revealing analysis of the gendered political ecology brought about by conflicting local interests and changing developmental initiatives in a West African village. Between 1975 and 1985, while much of Africa suffered devastating drought conditions, Gambian women farmers succeeded in establishing hundreds of lucrative communal market gardens. In less than a decade, the women's incomes began outstripping their husbands' in many areas, until a shift in development policy away from gender equity and toward environmental concerns threatened to do away with the social and economic gains of the garden boom. Male landholders joined forestry personnel in attempts to displace the gardens and capture women's labor for the irrigation of male-controlled tree crops.This carefully documented microhistory draws on field experience spanning more than two decades and the insights of disciplines ranging from critical human geography to development studies. Schroeder combines the "success story" of the market gardens with a cautionary tale about the aggressive pursuit of natural resource management objectives, however well intentioned. He shows that questions of power and social justice at the community level need to enter the debates of policymakers and specialists in environment and development planning. 410 0$aCalifornia studies in critical human geography. 606 $aMandingo (African people)$xAgriculture 606 $aWomen, Mandingo$xEconomic conditions 607 $aAlkalikunda (Gambia)$xSocial life and customs 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMandingo (African people)$xAgriculture. 615 0$aWomen, Mandingo$xEconomic conditions. 676 $a330.96651 676 $a338.1/096651 700 $aSchroeder$b Richard A.$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01169618 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910496139603321 996 $aShady Practices$92866395 997 $aUNINA