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Week 4
Readings
- Boserup, E. 1970. Woman’s role in economic development. London: Earthscan Publications. Pp 15-52, Chapters 1-2 (‘Male and female farming systems,’ ‘The Economics of polygamy’) in Canvas.
- Women’s Environment and Development Organization. 2011. Gender, climate change and human security: Lessons from Senegal. Pp 317-26 in Visvanathan, Duggan, Wiegersma and Nisonoff (eds) The Women, Gender and Development Reader. London: Zed Books.
- Betsy Hartmann and Elizabeth Barajas-Roman. 2011. The population bomb is back–with a global warming twist. Pp 327-33 in Visvanathan, Duggan, Wiegersma and Nisonoff (eds) The Women, Gender and Development Reader. London: Zed Books.
- Gender and Environment Series Editorial Committee. 2011. Feminist political ecology. Pp 43-45 in Visvanathan, Duggan, Wiegersma and Nisonoff (eds) The Women, Gender and Development Reader. London: Zed Books.
Lecture pages
- From WID to GAD to WED
- Farming systems
- More on farming systems
- Importance of property rights, land
- Outline, summary
Video
- Women and the changing environment
- CHAMS TV: How cultural practices are denying women the right to own land.
- USAID video (intro to land tenure and property rights)