Author: Björn Gyllström
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-07-26
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 1000868850
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Originally published in 1991, this book includes a detailed case study of Kenya’s co-operative movement – one of the largest in sub-Saharan Africa. Co-operatives have been given a major role in rural development strategies in both socialist and capitalist states. However in both context the results they have achieved have fallen short of expectations. The book focuses on specific elements of the institutional setting within which agricultural marketing co-operatives operate. Factors like land tenure, market regulations, co-operative legislation and direct development support are discussed and shown to have had dire effects on the managerial behaviour and social impact of the co-operative sector.
Author: Marcela Vásquez-Léon
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2017-03-14
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0816534748
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Provides a cross-country comparison of smallholder agricultural cooperatives in Paraguay, Brazil and Colombia, revealing immense opportunities and challenges for community development, empowerment, and social change"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 1428906517
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Nicholas S. Hopkins
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9789774244834
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What emerges is a picture of a rural Egypt that is full of life, dramatically evolving, and treading a delicate line between progress and impoverishment.
Author: Eduard B. Vermeer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first book available devoted exclusively to China's rural organizational change and the subsequent implications for rural societies and politics. Following China's successful decollectivization, diverse new organizational forms arose in response to different local situations. Yet the collective tradition did not die. The contributors dissect the closely structured relationships among the newly emerging class of rural entrepreneurs, local officials, and their family members and associates.
Author: Don Muhm
Publisher: Lone Oak Press, Limited
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781883477295
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: E. G. Nadeau
Publisher:
Published: 2016-09-01
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9780998066202
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this book, we present a hypothesis that humans may be on the threshold of a new historical stage, one characterized by cooperation, democracy, the equitable distribution of resources, and a sustainable relationship with nature. We can act strategically on a range of activities to become a more cooperative society.
Author: Cornelia Butler Flora
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-03-05
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 0429974329
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Communities in rural America are a complex mixture of peoples and cultures, ranging from miners who have been laid off in West Virginia, to Laotian immigrants relocating in Kansas to work at a beef processing plant, to entrepreneurs drawing up plans for a world-class ski resort in California's Sierra Nevada. Rural Communities: Legacy and Change uses its unique Community Capitals framework to examine how America's diverse rural communities use their various capitals (natural, cultural, human, social, political, financial, and built) to address the modern challenges that face them. Each chapter opens with a case study of a community facing a particular challenge, and is followed by a comprehensive discussion of sociological concepts to be applied to understanding the case. This narrative, topical approach makes the book accessible and engaging for undergraduate students, while its integrative approach provides them with a framework for understanding rural society based on the concepts and explanations of social science. This fifth edition is updated throughout with 2013 census data and features new and expanded coverage of health and health care, food systems and alternatives, the effects of neoliberalism and globalization on rural communities, as well as an expanded resource and activity section at the end of each chapter.