Gender & Resource Use Among Mende in Gola, Sierra Leone

RAINFOREST RELATIONS

Gender and Resource Use Among the Mende of Gola, Sierra Leone

by Melissa Leach

Smithsonian Institution Press; about 6x9 inches, 272 pages. 

1994 Trade Hardback Edition in NEW condition.

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Centered on the Mende-speaking people living around the Gola forest reserves in teh Sierra Leone, this book shows how local communities and individuals in rainforest regions use and view forest resources and international environmental scrutiny and changing socioeconomic conditions.

Author argues that if both the rainforests and their human inhabitants are to survive, conservation policies must refocus to address local interests in general and women's issues in particular

Author details day-to-day interaction with the environment, examining labor and tenure arrangements, gathered products and their markets, hunting and fishing practices, and crop types.  She focuses on different women and men's experiences and their access to, use, and control of the land. 

This gender study is placed in the context of both an overview of West African conservation agendas over the past century and an examination of the strengths and weaknesses of ecofeminism and other currently popular appraoches to women and the environment.

Photographs, Maps, Tables.  Appendices, Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index.

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