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Gender

Through a study of the sedentarization of the Beni Guil pastoral nomads of eastern Morocco,this paper examines how gender interacts with environmental and socio-economic change. This paper demonstrates how gendered resource exploitation (in particular,the collection of mushrooms,medicinal plants, and fuelwood) is recast through sedentarization,urbanization,and commercialization.

The paper finds that:

• gender-based resource management patterns shift in response to settlement,commercialization,and more intensive land-use practices
• many household resource responsibilities such as collecting wild foods,medicinal plants and fuelwood are increasingly shared by women and men as households adapt to economic and environmental changes associated with sedentarization
• certain accepted theories of the consequences of settlement for nomad women and their local environments should be re-examined

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