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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 practicesmany 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 sedentarizationcertain accepted theories of the consequences of settlement for nomad women and their local environments should be re-examined
