"Re-claiming" land in the Gambia: Gendered property rights and environment intervention
| dc.contributor.author | Schroeder, R. A. | en |
| dc.contributor.department | Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebase | en |
| dc.coverage.spatial | The Gambia | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-04-19T19:30:50Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2016-04-19T19:30:50Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 1997 | en |
| dc.description | Metadata only record | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper is an analysis of environmental policies and practices and their impact on access and control of resources within a gender context. The analysis shows how women worked to change usufruct rights and male leaders manipulate environmental policies to "re-claim" the resources for Natural Resource Management projects. Women converted low-lying land into lucrative irrigated vegetable gardens to see projects allow men to take control over the territory. Land inheritance is patrilinear in this area; women often get permission to use unwanted land such as swampland and low-lying land. Market season is short so women carry their vegetables and sell them door to door. | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | en |
| dc.identifier | 3195 | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Annals of the Association of American Geographers 87(3): 487-508 | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0004-5608 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/67337 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
| dc.publisher | Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the American Association of Geographers | en |
| dc.rights | In Copyright | en |
| dc.rights.holder | Copyright 1997 Association of American Geographers | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | en |
| dc.subject | Tenure system | en |
| dc.subject | Gender | en |
| dc.subject | Agroforestry | en |
| dc.subject | The Gambia | en |
| dc.subject | Reclaiming land | en |
| dc.subject | Property rights | en |
| dc.subject | Resource tenure | en |
| dc.subject | Political ecology | en |
| dc.subject | Environment intervention | en |
| dc.title | "Re-claiming" land in the Gambia: Gendered property rights and environment intervention | en |
| dc.type | Abstract | en |
| dc.type.dcmitype | Text | en |