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The overstory book : cultivating connections with trees.
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ISBN: 0970254431 Year: 2004 Publisher: Holualoa Permanent Agriculture Resources

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Farms, trees and farmers : responses to agricultural intensification.
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ISBN: 185383484X 9781853834844 Year: 1997 Publisher: London Earthscan


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Faidherbia albida : A monograph.
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ISBN: 2854110048 Year: 1989 Publisher: Wageningen : Nogent-sur-Marne : Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ; Centre Technique Forestier Tropical,


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Les premières forêts communautaires du Gabon : récits d'une expérience pilote
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ISBN: 9782930398327 Year: 2008 Publisher: Gembloux : Faculté universitaire des Sciences agronomiques de Gembloux. Unité de Gestion des Ressources forestières et des Milieux naturels. Laboratoire de Foresterie tropicale et subtropicale,


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Quand la ville mange la forêt : les défis du bois-énergie en Afrique centrale
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ISSN: 21151229 ISBN: 9782759219803 2759219801 Year: 2013 Publisher: Versailles : QUAE,

Dipterocarp forest ecosystems : towards sustainable management.
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ISBN: 9810227299 9789810227296 Year: 1996 Publisher: Singapore World scientific

Shady practices
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ISBN: 0520216873 0520222334 9786612355042 0520924479 128235504X 058528895X 9780520924475 9780585288956 9780520216877 9780520222335 Year: 1999 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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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 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.

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Gambia. --- Mandingo (African people)-- Agriculture. --- Patriarchy. --- Mandingo (African people) --- Women, Mandingo --- Agriculture. --- Economic conditions. --- Mandingo women --- Women, Mandingo (African people) --- Malinke (African people) --- Mandé (African people) --- Manding (African people) --- Mandingue (African people) --- Mandinka (African people) --- Mandino (African people) --- Maninka (African people) --- Maninkaalu (African people) --- Soce (African people) --- Sosse (African people) --- Ethnology --- Agroforestry --- Division of labor --- Forest ecology --- Patriarchy --- Sex role --- Gender role --- Sex (Psychology) --- Sex differences (Psychology) --- Social role --- Gender expression --- Sexism --- Androcracy --- Patriarchal families --- Fathers --- Families --- Male domination (Social structure) --- Patrilineal kinship --- Forests and forestry --- Ecology --- Labor, Division of --- Labor --- Economic specialization --- Agro-forestry --- Agriculture --- Tree crops --- Social conditions --- Political aspects --- Economic conditions --- Alkalikunda (Gambia) --- Social life and customs. --- Forest ecosystems --- Gender roles --- Gendered role --- Gendered roles --- Role, Gender --- Role, Gendered --- Role, Sex --- Roles, Gender --- Roles, Gendered --- Roles, Sex --- Sex roles --- 1970s. --- 1980s. --- academic. --- community. --- crops. --- cultural studies. --- drought. --- economics. --- economy. --- environmental. --- environmentalist. --- farmers. --- farming. --- female farmers. --- forestry. --- gambia. --- gardening. --- gender politics. --- gender roles. --- gender studies. --- geography. --- human development. --- irrigation. --- landowners. --- microhistory. --- natural disaster. --- political. --- politics. --- scholarly. --- small town. --- social justice. --- village. --- west africa. --- womens labor. --- working women. --- world history.

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