Land Trees And Women

Author : Maria Agnes R. Quisumbing
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 : 0896291227
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Land, Trees, and Women written by Maria Agnes R. Quisumbing and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do women's land rights change as customary tenure systems give way to individualized land tenure? While the individualization of land rights creates incentives for poor farmers in marginal areas to adopt agroforestry, not much is known about its impact on women's land rights. Land, Trees, and Women examines the evolution of customary land tenure institutions in areas of Western Ghana and Western Sumatra where traditional matrilineal inheritance systems have been changing. In these two areas, the authors find that individualization of land tenure has contributed to both increased gender equity and greater efficiency in agroforestry management. While property rights institutions are moving toward providing proper incentives for efficient natural resource management, the authors conclude that any program or legal framework that assigns rights to resources must be evaluated for barriers to women's participation.

Author : Franck Prévot
Publisher : Charlesbridge
ISBN 13 : 1607347954
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wangari Maathai written by Franck Prévot and published by Charlesbridge. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Trees are living symbols of peace and hope.” –Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace laureate Wangari Maathai changed the way the world thinks about nature, ecology, freedom, and democracy, inspiring radical efforts that continue to this day.This simply told story begins with Green Belt Movement founder Wangari Maathai’s childhood at the foot of Mount Kenya where, as the oldest child in her family, her responsibility was to stay home and help her mother. When the chance to go to school presented itself, she seized it with both hands. She traveled to the US to study, where she saw that even in the land of the free, black people were not welcome. Returning home, Wangari was determined to help her people and her country. She recognized that deforestation and urbanization was at the root of her country’s troubles. Her courage and confidence carried her through adversity to found a movement for peace, reconciliation, and healing. Aurélia Fronty’s beautiful illustrations show readers the color and diversity of Wangari’s Africa—the green trees and the flowering trees full of birds, monkeys, and other animals; the roots that dig deep into the earth; and the people who work and live on the land.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Snapshots written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gerry William
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Woman in the Trees written by Gerry William and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A magical landscape as close as your own backyard, populated by the spirits of the animals and people, The Woman in the trees is a mythical exploration of the first contact between the Okanagans (the syilx) and early settlers, between orchardists and ranchers, between dream time and real time."--Page [4] of cover.

Author : Joan M. Jensen
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 9780912670904
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book With These Hands written by Joan M. Jensen and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 1981 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with Native American women, this volume traces the history of farm women of all races in the United States. The complex working lives of rural women -- European immigrants, black slaves and then farmers, Hispanic women in the new border states -- emerge through letters, songs, fiction, official documents, journal entries, poetry, and oral history. The texts testify to women's love of the land, to their consciousness of racism and sexism, and to their energies for social change.

Author : Dianne E. Rocheleau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women, Men and Trees written by Dianne E. Rocheleau and published by . This book was released on 1995* with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Keridwen N. Luis
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452957851
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Herlands written by Keridwen N. Luis and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How women-only communities provide spaces for new forms of culture, sociality, gender, and sexuality Women’s lands are intentional, collective communities composed entirely of women. Rooted in 1970s feminist politics, they continue to thrive in a range of ways, from urban households to isolated rural communes, providing spaces where ideas about gender, sexuality, and sociality are challenged in both deliberate and accidental ways. Herlands, a compelling ethnography of women’s land networks in the United States, highlights the ongoing relevance of these communities as vibrant cultural enclaves that also have an impact on broader ideas about gender, women’s bodies, lesbian identity, and right ways of living. As a participant-observer, Keridwen N. Luis brings unique insights to the lives and stories of the women living in these communities. While documenting the experiences of specific spaces in Massachusetts, Tennessee, New Mexico, and Ohio, Herlands also explores the history of women’s lands and breaks new ground exploring culture theory, gender theory, and how lesbian identity is conceived and constructed in North America. Luis also discusses how issues of race and class are addressed, the ways in which nudity and public hygiene challenge dominant constructions of the healthy or aging body, and the pervasive influence of hegemonic thinking on debates about transgender women. Luis finds that although changing dominant thinking can be difficult and incremental, women’s lands provide exciting possibilities for revolutionary transformation in society.

Author : Ann Zwinger
Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781555661717
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Land Above the Trees written by Ann Zwinger and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North America, tundra plants, tundra ecology, mountain ecology.

Author : Phillip N. Bradley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Woodfuel, Women and Woodlots: A basis for effective research and development in East Africa written by Phillip N. Bradley and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Diane Cook
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683351770
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wise Trees written by Diane Cook and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading landscape photographers Diane Cook and Len Jenshel present Wise Trees—a stunning photography book containing more than 50 historical trees with remarkable stories from around the world. Supported by grants from the Expedition Council of the National Geographic Society, Cook and Jenshel spent two years traveling to fifty-nine sites across five continents to photograph some of the world’s most historic and inspirational trees. Trees, they tell us, can live without us, but we cannot live without them. Not only do trees provide us with the oxygen we breathe, food gathered from their branches, and wood for both fuel and shelter, but they have been essential to the spiritual and cultural life of civilizations around the world. From Luna, the Coastal Redwood in California that became an international symbol when activist Julia Butterfly Hill sat for 738 days on a platform nestled in its branches to save it from logging, to the Bodhi Tree, the sacred fig in India that is a direct descendent of the tree under which Buddha attained enlightenment, Cook and Jenshel reveal trees that have impacted and shaped our lives, our traditions, and our feelings about nature. There are also survivor trees, including a camphor tree in Nagasaki that endured the atomic bomb, an American elm in Oklahoma City, and the 9/11 Survivor Tree, a Callery pear at the 9/11 Memorial. All of the trees were carefully selected for their role in human dramas. This project both reflects and inspires awareness of the enduring role of trees in nurturing and sheltering humanity. Photographers, environmentalists, history buffs, and nature-lovers alike will appreciate the extraordinary stories found within the pages of Wise Trees!