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Author Kea, Pamela.

Title Land, labour and entrustment : West African female farmers and the politics of difference / by Pamela J. Kea
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 218 pages) : maps
Series African social studies series ; v. 21
African social studies series ; v. 21.
Contents Processes of agrarian transformation: strange farmers, groundnuts and the search for new modes of accumulation -- Narratives of the founding of Brikama: hosts and the affirmation of social identities -- The practice of daily life: greetings and the social relations of agrarian production -- Hosts and the acquisition of land -- Female agrarian clientelist relations and entrustment -- The changing relations of agrarian production and the politics of difference
Summary Challenging portrayals of West African female farmers as a homogenous group, the present study provides an ethnographic account of the contractual relations established between female hosts and migrants, in the exchange of land and labour for agrarian production in The Gambia
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-216) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Land reform -- Gambia -- Brikama
Women farmers -- Gambia -- Brikama
Contract labor -- Gambia -- Brikama
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Agribusiness.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Sustainable Agriculture.
Contract labor
Land reform
Women farmers
Gambia -- Brikama
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004185388
9004185380
Other Titles Land, labor and entrustment