Revealing gendered landscapes: Female knowledge and agroforestry of African shea

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dc.contributor.authorCarney, J. A.en
dc.contributor.authorElias, M.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialWest Africaen
dc.coverage.temporal2001 - 2004en
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T20:07:55Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T20:07:55Zen
dc.date.issued2006en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractThis article discusses how local gendered knowledge and practices in the shea agroforestry production in West Africa shape landscapes over time and space. Using political ecology, the article also discusses how shea nut production has been influenced and controlled by regional and global markets throughout pre-colonial, colonial, and contemporary histories. Using fieldwork studies in West Africa from 2001 to 2004, these authors specifically explore local indigenous knowledge, and the role of women's knowledge, conservation, and control over shea butter and oil production. In shea agroforestry, women cultivate and conserve the trees through seed selection, fire, processing, and protection. Emphasis is centered on the need to recognize local men and women's knowledge of the butter tree and the landscape for sustainable resource management and development.en
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dc.identifier4707en
dc.identifier.citationCanadian Journal of African Studies 40(2): 235-267en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/68944en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherCanadian Association of African Studiesen
dc.relation.urihttp://www.jstor.org/stable/25433880en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2006 Canadian Association of African Studies and JSTORen
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectCommodity cropsen
dc.subjectAgrobiodiversityen
dc.subjectFamilyen
dc.subjectConservationen
dc.subjectEconomic impactsen
dc.subjectTraditional farmingen
dc.subjectTree cropsen
dc.subjectEthnicity/raceen
dc.subjectEnvironmental impactsen
dc.subjectEmpowermenten
dc.subjectCommunity developmenten
dc.subjectFireen
dc.subjectWomenen
dc.subjectIndigenous communityen
dc.subjectGovernment policyen
dc.subjectGenderen
dc.subjectAgroforestryen
dc.subjectLocal knowledgeen
dc.subjectGovernmenten
dc.subjectMenen
dc.subjectForestsen
dc.subjectAgricultural ecosystemsen
dc.subjectIndigenous knowledgeen
dc.subjectGenderen
dc.subjectAgroforestryen
dc.subjectAfricaen
dc.subjectMalien
dc.subjectGuineaen
dc.subjectFarmingen
dc.subjectLocal knowledgeen
dc.subjectFireen
dc.subjectConservationen
dc.subjectColonializationen
dc.subjectGlobal marketsen
dc.subjectTreesen
dc.subjectFarm/Enterprise Scale Field Scale Governanceen
dc.titleRevealing gendered landscapes: Female knowledge and agroforestry of African sheaen
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