Cooperatives, Grassroots Development, and Social Change
Title | Cooperatives, Grassroots Development, and Social Change PDF eBook |
Author | Marcela Vásquez-Léon |
Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | 265 |
Release | 2017-03-14 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0816534748 |
"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.
Cooperative Development in Rural Areas
Title | Cooperative Development in Rural Areas PDF eBook |
Author | Raymond Williams |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 40 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Agriculture, Cooperative |
ISBN |
Cooperative Development in Rural Areas
Title | Cooperative Development in Rural Areas PDF eBook |
Author | Raymond Williams |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Agriculture, Cooperative |
ISBN |
Rural Cooperatives
Title | Rural Cooperatives PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 358 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Agriculture, Cooperative |
ISBN |
Farmer Cooperatives
Title | Farmer Cooperatives PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 24 |
Release | 1995-07 |
Genre | Agriculture, Cooperative |
ISBN |
The Rural Credit and Cooperative Development Project in Guatemala
Title | The Rural Credit and Cooperative Development Project in Guatemala PDF eBook |
Author | John R. Davidson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 114 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Agricultural credit |
ISBN |
Cooperatives, Grassroots Development, and Social Change
Title | Cooperatives, Grassroots Development, and Social Change PDF eBook |
Author | Marcela Vásquez-Léon |
Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | 265 |
Release | 2017-03-14 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0816536295 |
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 provide access to more secure livelihoods, expand control over basic resources and commodity chains, improve quality of life in rural areas, support community infrastructure, and offer social spaces wherein small farmers can engage politically in transforming their own communities. The stories in Cooperatives, Grassroots Development, and Social Change reveal immense opportunities and challenges. Although cooperatives have often been framed as alternatives to the global capitalist system, they are neither a panacea nor the hegemonic extension of neoliberal capitalism. Through one of the most thorough cross-country comparisons of cooperatives to date, this volume shows the unfiltered reality of cooperative development in highly stratified societies, with case studies selected specifically because they offer important lessons regarding struggles and strategies for adapting to a changing social, economic, and natural environment. Contributors: Luis Barros Brian J. Burke Charles Cox Luis Alberto Cuéllar Gómez Miguel Ricardo Dávila Ladrón de Guevara Elisa Echagüe Timothy J. Finan Andrés González Aguilera Sonia Carolina López Cerón Joana Laura Marinho Nogueira João Nicédio Alves Nogueira Jessica Piekielek María Isabel Ramírez Anaya Rodrigo F. Rentería-Valencia Lilliana Andrea Ruiz Marín Marcela Vásquez-León