Rainforest Relations : Gender & Resource Use by the Mende of Gola, Sierra Leone /
Melissa Leach.
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2022.
- 1 online resource (304 pages).
- International African Library : IAL .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES, PLATES AND TABLES -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES AND ACRONYMS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE. Conservation, gender and the environment -- 1. FOREST COMMUNITIES AND FOREST CONSERVATION -- 2. GENDER AND THE ENVIRONMENT -- PART TWO. Gender and resource use in the Gola forest of Sierra Leone -- 3. THE GOLA FOREST OF SIERRA LEONE -- 4. FARMING, FOOD AND FALLOWS -- 5. TREE CROPS, CASH CROPS -- 6. TIMBER AND NON-TIMBER FOREST PRODUCTS -- 7. HUNTING AND FISHING -- 8. MONEY, FOOD AND MANAGING -- 9. CONCLUSIONS: FOREST RESOURCES, FOREST FUTURES -- APPENDIX I. Research Methods -- APPENDIX II. Plant and Animal Names -- NOTES AND REFERENCES -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
With environmental change and conservation in West Africa's tropical rainforests becoming topics of increasing political and academic interest, this book brings a fresh set of perspectives to the debate - those of the forest dwellers themselves. Based on her detailed field research in the Mende communities around Gola North Forest reserve, and surveying the recent debates and literature concerning forest conservations and current analytical approaches to gender and the environment, Melissa Leach examines the importance of rainforest resources to the local economy and social relations and shows that neither an understanding of forest use and change, nor adequate conservation policies can be achieved without a concern for gender.
9781474470162
Forest conservation--Sierra Leone. Forest reserves--Sierra Leone. Women in rural development--Sierra Leone. Mende (African people)--Social conditions. African Studies.