Empowerment, mobilisation and initiation of a community driven project: women and the Marula

Sian Newsome Magadza

Agricultural Economics Review, 2006, vol. 07, issue 1

Abstract: Bulilimamangwe is one of the poorest and most marginalised areas of Zimbabwe. In 2001 a community driven project was started under the Kellogg funded Integrated Rural Development Programme, to utilise the indigenous Marula trees found in the area. From the onset project members were mostly women. This paper documents the early years of the project. Achievements are given, problems faced examined and possible solutions put forward. Challenges, opportunities and conflicts are discussed in the hope that these may be of interest in the study of future projects utilising natural resources in poor communities.

Keywords: Empowerment; women; natural resource; rural livelyhoods; development; Marula (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
View list of references

Downloads: (external link)
http://purl.umn.edu/44107 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:aergaa:44107

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Agricultural Economics Review from Greek Association of Agricultural Economists
Contact information at EDIRC.
Series data maintained by AgEcon Search ().