
Visualizing Women’s Roles in Agriculture: Gender and the Local Food Economy in the Commonwealth of Dominica
by Samantha King, PhD candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Commonwealth of Dominica is a rural island nation in the Eastern Caribbean in which most households depend upon agriculture, both for subsistence and exchange. Production is dominated by small family farms that supply global export markets as well as the intra- and inter-island trading networks that comprise a robust yet poorly-understood local food economy.