Trying for a better future: Women oyster sellers in The Gambia come together to improve the quality of their lives, and as they do, their produce—oysters—receives an upmarket boost

Croke, Adrian (2011) Trying for a better future: Women oyster sellers in The Gambia come together to improve the quality of their lives, and as they do, their produce—oysters—receives an upmarket boost. Yemaya (38). pp. 2-4. ISSN 0973-1156

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Abstract

A 35-year old widowed mother of five.During a four-month season, she wakesup at dawn everyday and heads to the river. Her children stay at home by themselves. How nice it would be if they could go to school, but there just isn’t enough money. She works briskly throughout the low tide, hacking oysters off the mangrove roots with an axe. Sometimes her hands and feet come in the way of the axe, but then she hasn’t met her death yet in the water, has she? That’s something to be thankful for. So many of her friends lost their lives this way.

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.YEM331
Keywords:	Yemaya, ICSF, Gambia, Oysters, Women, Living Conditions, Fish Marketing, Mangroves, Fish Harvesting, Resources Management, Small-scale Fisheries, Women, gender
Subjects:	Gender in Fisheries and Aquaculture
Depositing User:	Chitti Babu ICSF
Date Deposited:	27 Sep 2021 12:46
Last Modified:	28 Mar 2022 05:01
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/722

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