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Cooperatives, Grassroots Development, and Social Change
. Ed(S): Vasquez-Leon, Marcela; Burke, Brian J.; Finan, Timothy J.
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Hardback. Editor(s): Vasquez-Leon, Marcela; Burke, Brian J.; Finan, Timothy J. Num Pages: 240 pages, 3 charts, 1 map, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFCV; JFFA; JFSF; JHMC; RNC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Cooperatives, Grassroots Development, and Social Change presents examples from Paraguay, Brazil, and Colombia, examining what is necessary for smallholder agricultural cooperatives to support holistic community-based development in peasant communities. Reporting on successes and failures of these cooperative efforts, the contributors offer analyses and strategies for supporting collective grassroots interests. Illustrating how poverty and inequality affect rural people, they reveal how cooperative organizations can support grassroots development strategies while negotiating local contexts of inequality amid the broader context of international markets and global competition.
The contributors explain the key desirable goals from cooperative efforts among smallholder producers. They are to ... Read more
Cooperatives, Grassroots Development, and Social Change presents examples from Paraguay, Brazil, and Colombia, examining what is necessary for smallholder agricultural cooperatives to support holistic community-based development in peasant communities. Reporting on successes and failures of these cooperative efforts, the contributors offer analyses and strategies for supporting collective grassroots interests. Illustrating how poverty and inequality affect rural people, they reveal how cooperative organizations can support grassroots development strategies while negotiating local contexts of inequality amid the broader context of international markets and global competition.
The contributors explain the key desirable goals from cooperative efforts among smallholder producers. They are to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Arizona Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Tucson, United States
ISBN
9780816534746
SKU
V9780816534746
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Ref
99-15
About . Ed(S): Vasquez-Leon, Marcela; Burke, Brian J.; Finan, Timothy J.
Marcela Vásquez-León is the director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona, where she is also an associate professor at the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology (BARA) at the School of Anthropology. She has received many awards and her work has been published in American Anthropologist, Human Organization, Latin American Perspectives, and Global Environmental ... Read more
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