2010 Volume 50 Issue 2 Pages 69-91
This paper describes a relationship between marine products as local resources in Saloum Delta, Senegal and roles of women’s labor in local communities with recognizing roles of women’s gender in the village communities through disclosing the actual situation of women’s production activities to shoulder their roles.
The most important economic activity for women in Saloum Delta is gathering, processing and sales of shellfish. They are engaged in their economic activity with accessing to shellfish gathering sites by either walk or rowing boat from their village. Managing actors of the shellfish as their local resources should not be men who spend most of their life out of Saloum Delta as migrant workers, but should be women who stay most of their life in the delta.
Women’s groups whose members possess wisdom jointly obtained by seeing, hearing and experiencing in their daily life, can become managing actors for the local resources only if the women’s groups acquire an ability to unify the stakeholder’s will. A policy to promote capacity building of such women’s groups in Saloum Delta is required to make them managing actors for local resources such as shellfish through fermenting their consciousness by providing the rights and obligations to them.
