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Gender, Environment, and Development in Kenya : A Grassroots Perspective / Dianne Rocheleau, Barbara Thomas-Slayter.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]Copyright date: ©1995Description: 1 online resource (247 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781685856007
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. Conceptual and Contextual Frameworks -- Map -- 1 Gender, Resources, and Local Institutions: New Identities for Kenya's Rural Women -- 2 The African and Kenyan Contexts -- Part 2 The Cases -- 3 Gender, Ecology, and Agroforestry: Science and Survival in Kathama -- 4 Adapting to Resource Constraints in Gikarangu: New Livelihood Strategies for Women and Men -- 5 From Cattle to Coffee: Transformation in Mbusyani and Kyevaluki -- 6 People, Property, Poverty, and Parks: A Story of Men, Women, Water, and Trees at Pwani -- 7 A Pocket of Poverty: Linking Water, Health, and Gender-Based Responsibilities in South Kamwango -- Part 3 Considering Policy -- 8 Policy Implications and Opportunities for Action -- Glossary -- Acronyms -- Appendix: Eight Steps to Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) -- Bibliography -- The Authors -- Index -- The Book
Summary: The authors examine the linkages among poverty, gender roles, resource decline, and ecological degradation in six very differing communities in rural Kenya.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. Conceptual and Contextual Frameworks -- Map -- 1 Gender, Resources, and Local Institutions: New Identities for Kenya's Rural Women -- 2 The African and Kenyan Contexts -- Part 2 The Cases -- 3 Gender, Ecology, and Agroforestry: Science and Survival in Kathama -- 4 Adapting to Resource Constraints in Gikarangu: New Livelihood Strategies for Women and Men -- 5 From Cattle to Coffee: Transformation in Mbusyani and Kyevaluki -- 6 People, Property, Poverty, and Parks: A Story of Men, Women, Water, and Trees at Pwani -- 7 A Pocket of Poverty: Linking Water, Health, and Gender-Based Responsibilities in South Kamwango -- Part 3 Considering Policy -- 8 Policy Implications and Opportunities for Action -- Glossary -- Acronyms -- Appendix: Eight Steps to Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) -- Bibliography -- The Authors -- Index -- The Book

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The authors examine the linkages among poverty, gender roles, resource decline, and ecological degradation in six very differing communities in rural Kenya.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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