Shady practice: Gender and the political ecology of resource stabilization in Gambian garden/orchards

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dc.contributor.authorSchroeder, R. A.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialNorth Bank of the river Gambiaen
dc.coverage.spatialThe Gambiaen
dc.coverage.spatialWest Africaen
dc.coverage.temporal1989 - 1991en
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T19:45:21Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T19:45:21Zen
dc.date.issued1993en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractThis article discusses gender dynamics of gardens and orchards along the North Bank of the river Gambia: rivalry between men and women's crops, competition over women's labor when trees are introduced for the environmental stabilization, and how the shade canopy undermines women gardeners' rights and keeps the lands under male control. The author conducts an ethnographic study in the North Bank of the river Gambia in 1989 and 1991. Because of two decades of drought that changed this area' ecology, there was competition between men and women's crop production systems over low-lying and groundwater resources. Men and women have separate places, specific crops, time and different product value for production. Men grow mainly cash crops and women grow food crops. However, two decades of drought led to women's groups increasing fruit and vegetable production in low-lying communal gardens and adopting a new type of shorter-duration production systems. Women's labor sustained men's irrigated cash crops. These changes with infrastructure development and government policies attracted many funds and development project in this area that motivated women to expand their garden production of cash crops. This cash income gradually made women a major financial contributor within their household. However, conflict developed with male construction of orchards and subsequent demands for women's labor in the same locations.en
dc.format.mimetypetext/plainen
dc.identifier3884en
dc.identifier.citationEconomic Geography 69(4): 349-365en
dc.identifier.issn0013-0095en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/68182en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherClark Universityen
dc.relation.urihttp://www.jstor.org/stable/143594en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderCopyright 1993 Clark Universityen
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectGroundwateren
dc.subjectDroughten
dc.subjectCash cropsen
dc.subjectSustainable developmenten
dc.subjectWomenen
dc.subjectConflicten
dc.subjectWateren
dc.subjectGenderen
dc.subjectIrrigationen
dc.subjectSustainabilityen
dc.subjectEnvironmental stabilizationen
dc.subjectPolitical ecologyen
dc.subjectAllocationen
dc.subjectStrategiesen
dc.subjectCompetitionen
dc.subjectUnpaid female laboren
dc.subjectNegotiationen
dc.subjectHouseholdsen
dc.subjectHorticultureen
dc.subjectTransformationen
dc.subjectWomen's groupsen
dc.subjectOrchardsen
dc.subjectCanopyen
dc.subjectUsufruct land rightsen
dc.subjectCustomary land lawsen
dc.subjectEthnographic studyen
dc.subjectCase studiesen
dc.subjectThe Gambiaen
dc.subjectFarm/Enterprise Scale Field Scaleen
dc.titleShady practice: Gender and the political ecology of resource stabilization in Gambian garden/orchardsen
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