Shady Practices: Agroforestry and Gender Politics in the Gambia Volume 5

by Richard A. Schroeder

Book 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520222334
• ISBN13: 9780520222335
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"