Toggle Main Menu Toggle Search

Open Access padlockePrints

Sustainable development and gender hierarchies: extension for semi-subsistence fish farming in Tabasco, Mexico

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Janet Townsend

Downloads

Full text for this publication is not currently held within this repository. Alternative links are provided below where available.


Abstract

The establishment of subsistence aquaculture has been heralded as a means of achieving environmental and social sustainability as it is seen to augment farm livelihoods and supplement household subsistence needs while providing a cash income at critical points in the agricultural calendar at the same time. Yet gender processes within this sector are little understood and have received little attention within literature on natural resource management. Research in Tabasco, Mexico, suggestes very different perceptions towards subsistence aquaculture between different family members - women and men, adults and children - that reflect the gendering of livelihoods in rural Mexico. This article points out that an appreciation of the different meanings of fish farming for different family members and its gendered micro-geography are key issues in understanding the relative successes and failures in recent extension efforts, where historically government institutions and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have worked with individuals and groups of (usually men) farmers rather than family groups.


Publication metadata

Author(s): Galmiche-Tejeda A, Townsend JG

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Gender, Technology and Development

Year: 2006

Volume: 10

Issue: 1

Pages: 101-126

ISSN (print): 0971-8524

ISSN (electronic): 1940-1175

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/097185240501000106

DOI: 10.1177/097185240501000106


Altmetrics

Altmetrics provided by Altmetric


Share