Cutting Down Trees is about local responses to global processes of change. This major study traces detailed changes in the agricultural system of Zambia's Northern Province over a period of 100 years. The authors assess the ecological, social, and political changes affecting the region, and relate current development initiatives to long-run interventions. Drawing on their extensive research experience, Moore and Vaughan have produced a detailed examination of the changing nature of gender relations, household production, and nutrition.
Henrietta L. Moore is Reader in Anthropology at the London School of Economics. She previously taught at the Universities of Kent and Cambridge. She has conducted major fieldwork in Kenya and Zambia and has published extensively in the field of feminist and social theory.
Megan Vaughan is Rhodes lecturer in Commonwealth Studies at the University of Oxford. She previously taught at the University of Malawi and has conducted extensive research into the social and economic histories of Malawi and Zambia, and into the history of colonial medicine in Africa.