This presents twenty specially commissioned case studies of farmer participatory
approaches to agricultural innovation initiated by NGOs in Latin America. Beginning with a …

Two-thirds of the population of the world are poor, and their number is growing in the first as
well as in the third world, despite billions of dollars of aid. The economic development …

Since the end of World War II, relations between industrialized nations and Third World
countries have been greatly determined and mediated by the discourses and practices of …

This book combines comprehensive empirical insights into NGOs' work in agriculture with
wider considerations of their relations with the state and their contribution to democratic …

Starting from a distinction between Kantian (principle-based) and utilitarian (preference-
based) approaches in political theory, this essay argues that we may understand normative …

Increasing communities' participation in development processes has been the subject of
both policy aspiration and scholarly critique. This paper explores the implications of a critical …

The book examines the interacting political, economic and other transformations in the world
that bear upon the prospects for popular participation. It initially reviews competing …

Political dimensions of conservation abound. The biosphere‐reserve model, however,
depoliticizes the landscape by neglecting politics as a shaper of ecologies. To illustrate this …

Global integration heightens the cyclical crises of capitalism by incorporating the
subsistence sectors of advanced and peripheral economies. World trends show a …

La escasez de alimentos, la malnutrición y la pobreza rural son problemas de consideración
en América Latina. Estos problemas han sido generalmente percibidos como el resultado …