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- Title
GARDEN GROWERS' GRIEVANCES: AN EXPLORATION OF MANDINKAN GENDER RELATIONS IN POST-COLONIAL AGRARIAN GAMBIAN COMMUNITIES.
- Authors
Freele, Elizabeth
- Abstract
This paper looks at Mandinkan gender relations in post-colonial agrarian communities in The Gambia, with regard to agricultural intensification and ecological stabilisation programs instituted since the 1970s. The overall outcome of these discordant programs has been the profound degradation of a shared-access system of land use and benefits, decreased security of land tenure for Gambian women and the destabilisation of the beneficial market garden sector within these communities. Rural Gambian women's agency and land rights have suffered immensely since the inception of the inimical development projects; the case study demonstrates the prevailing disconnect between grassroots community gender relations and international-level development policy-making. I advocate official legal reforms to empower women and an increase in awareness, at all levels, of how patterns of gender exploitation are continually factored into development initiatives. These communities reflect a broader trend in Africa, demonstrating the gender conflicts ensuing from the interaction of environmental stabilisation and agricultural development programs.
- Subjects
AGRARIAN societies; GAMBIANS; MANDINGO (African people); GENDER; LEGAL rights; AGRICULTURE
- Publication
Undercurrent, 2011, Vol 8, Issue 1, p17
- ISSN
1712-0934
- Publication type
Article