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 inWomen's studies quarterly Vol. 29; no. 1/2; pp. 99 - 115
Main Authors Angeles, Leonora C., Tarbotton, Rebecca
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Feminist Press 01.04.2001
Subjects
Activism
Agribusiness
Agricultural Occupations
Agricultural Production
Agriculture
Buddhism
Communities
Community Relations
Conservation
Cultural Background
Cultural Capital
Developing Countries
Ecological economics
Ecological sustainability
Environment
Environmental Protection
Environmentalism
Essays
Family Income
Females
Free Enterprise System
Gender roles
Government (Administrative Body)
Human Capital
India
Indigenous Knowledge
Indigenous Populations
Learning
Men
Mies, Maria
Physical Fitness
Resource Materials
Sex Fairness
Social Change
Social Networks
Socialization
Sustainable agriculture
Sustainable Development
Traditional knowledge
Volunteerism
Women
Womens Groups
Womens studies
Working the Earth: Women and Sustainable Development
Ladakh India
India
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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
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