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Title: | Livelihood strategies compared: private initiatives and collective efforts of Wolof women in Senegal |
Authors: | Venema, Bernhard Eijk, Jelka van |
Year: | 2004 |
Periodical: | African Studies |
Volume: | 63 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | July |
Pages: | 51-71 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Senegal |
Subjects: | Wolof livelihoods women women's organizations Women's Issues Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Cultural Roles Sex Roles Family Life Marital Relations and Nuptiality |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/0002018042000226157 |
Abstract: | This article compares two pathways that rural Wolof women in Senegal employ in the face of deteriorating living conditions caused by decreasing farming opportunities, namely, collective income-earning projects initiated by development agencies and individual trading activities. Research was carried out in the village of Medina Sabakh in the Kaolack region in 1996-1998 and 2001-2002. The article looks at the role of women's groups with special attention paid to opportunities for mutual assistance, income-earning opportunities and whether these groups constitute political capital; examines the relative contribution of private trading activities as a livelihood strategy, and looks at the role of credit in these livelihood strategies. The paper concludes that many women are members of a women's group as well as active in local trade. Trading, however, is more important for these women than being a member of a women's group. Bibliogr., notes. [ASC Leiden abstract] |