Local Transformation through Global Connection: Women's Assets and Environmental Activism for Sustainable Agriculture in Ladakh, India
With the current pressure to modernize agriculture in underdeveloped countries, traditional agricultural systems are rapidly becoming marginalized, especially when women are involved. Local resistance to this trend is evident in attempts to maintain & rediscover cultural traditions, especially t...
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Published in | Women's studies quarterly Vol. 29; no. 1/2; pp. 99 - 115 |
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Main Authors | , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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New York
Feminist Press
01.04.2001
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Summary: | With the current pressure to modernize agriculture in underdeveloped countries, traditional agricultural systems are rapidly becoming marginalized, especially when women are involved. Local resistance to this trend is evident in attempts to maintain & rediscover cultural traditions, especially those that enhance local sustainable agriculture. One such attempt by women in India to organize across & beyond local communities to share sustainable agricultural traditions, the Women's Alliance of Ladakh & its Ladakh Farm Project, are described, informed by concepts of radical planning & ecofeminism. The Ladakh experience shows that the human capital, education, traditional ecological knowledge, social networks, & cultural capital of indigenous women can exert a powerful force on social transformation through environmental activism. 51 References. M. Pflum |
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ISSN: | 0732-1562 1934-1520 |