"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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