Land Tenure and Rural Development
Land Tenure and Rural Development

Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Publisher: FAO

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13:

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This publication deals with key issues in land tenure, especially as they relate to food insecurity and rural development situations. Land tenure issues are frequently ignored in rural development interventions, with often long-lasting, negative results. This guide is designed to assist technical officers in governments and civil society in understanding why and how land tenure issues should be considered in rural development projects. It analyses important contexts such as environmental degradation, gender discrimination, and conflicts, where land tenure is currently of critical concern.

Social and Solidarity Economy
Social and Solidarity Economy

Author: Peter Utting

Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.

Published: 2015-04-09

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 178360347X

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As economic crises, growing inequality and climate change prompt a global debate on the meaning and trajectory of development, increasing attention is focusing on 'social and solidarity economy' as a distinctive approach to sustainable and rights-based development. While we are beginning to understand what social and solidarity economy is, what it promises and how it differs from 'business as usual', we know far less about whether it can really move beyond its fringe status in many countries and regions. Under what conditions can social and solidarity economy scale up and scale out - that is, expand in terms of the growth of social and solidarity economy organizations and enterprises, or spread horizontally within given territories? Bringing together leading researchers, blending theoretical and empirical analysis, and drawing on experiences and case studies from multiple countries and regions, this volume addresses these questions. In so doing, it aims to inform a broad constituency of development actors, including scholars, practitioners, activists and policy makers.

Bases para una estrategía de desarrollo agropecuario y agroindustrial en América Latina y el Caribe
Bases para una estrategía de desarrollo agropecuario y agroindustrial en América Latina y el Caribe

Author: Bases para una estrategia de desarrollo agropecuario y agroindustrial en America Latina e el Caribe

Publisher: IICA

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9789290391784

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Agricultura en el desarrollo economico de America Latina y el Caribe: caracterizacion general e implicaciones de la crisis de los anos 80; Economia global: crecimiento sostenido y debilidades del modelo; Sector agropecuario: un papel secundario en el modelo de desarrollo hasta la crisis y el ajuste; Hacia un nuevo papel de la agricultura en las estrategias de desarrollo economico regional; Necessidad de superar el "ajuste recesivo"; Agricultura en el ajuste para el desarrollo; Los requisitos para el efectivo despliegue de las potencialidades de la agricultura en America Latina el Caribe: la necessidad de un marco estrategico; Estrategia para la reactivacion agropecuaria en America Latina y el Caribe: elementos centrales y recomendaciones; Politicas macroeconomicas y sectoriales de incentivos y la movilizacion de inversiones; Incentivos macroeconomicos y sectoriales; Inversion y movilizacion de recursos financieros; Relaciones economicas internacionales en el desarrollo agropecuario: comercio internacional, integracion economica y comercio intrarregional; Modernizacion institucional; Desafio tecnologico; Desarrollo rural y el campesinado en la estrategia de reactivacion y desarrollo agropecuario; Desarrollo agroindustrial en el proceso de rectivacion agropecuaria; Sintesis e conclusiones; Anexo 1; Anexo 2.