Women and plants : gender relations in biodiversity management and conservation / edited by Patricia L. Howard

Published by Zed Books in association with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit and International Development and Research Centre

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Women and the plant world: an exploration / Patricia L. Howard -- Part I Culture, kitchen and conservation -- Women in the garden and kitchen: the role of cuisine in the conservation of traditional house lot crops among Yucatec Mayan immigrants / Laurie S.Z. Greenberg -- Wild food plants and Arbëresh women in Lucania, Southern Italy / Andrea Pieroni -- Women and 'wild' foods: nutrition and household security among Rai and sherpa forager-farmers in Eastern Nepal / Ephrosine Daniggelis -- Part II Gender relations, women's rights and plant management -- Farm women's rights and roles in wild plant food gathering and management in North-East Thailand / Lisa Leimar Price -- Gender and entitlements in Zimbabwean woodlands: a case study of resettlement / Allison Goebel -- Part III Gendered plant knowledge in science and society -- 'Passing on the news': women's work, traditional knowledge and plant resource management in indigenous societies of North-western North America / Nancy Turner -- The invisible queen in the plant kingdom: gender perspectives in medical ethnobotany / Brij Kothari -- The gender of crops in the Papua New Guinea Highlands / Paul Sillitoe -- Part IV Plants, women's status and welfare -- Gendering the tradition of plant gathering in Central Anatolia (Turkey) / Füsun Ertug230}0-- The basket makers of the Central California interior / Linda Dick Bissonnette -- Exchange, patriarchy and status: women's homegardens in Bangladesh / Margot Wilson -- Part V Gender, biodiversity loss and conservation -- Losing ground: gender relations, commercial horticulture and threats to local plant diversity in rural Mali / Stephen Wooten -- Modernization and gender dynamics in the loss of agrobiodiversity in Swaziland's food system -/ Millicent Malaza -- Arawakan women and the erosion of traditional food production in Amazonas Venezuela / Shirley Hoffman -- Women and maize breeding: the development of new seed systems in a marginal area of South-west China / Yiching Song and Janice Jiggins