The Outlook for Agriculture and Rural Development in the Americas: A Perspective on Latin America and the Caribbean 2015-2016

In this, the sixth in the series of documents entitled “Outlook for Agriculture and Rural Development in the Americas,” the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) analyze the trends in, and outlook for, the macroeconomic and sectoral contexts, agriculture, rural well-being, and policies and the institutional framework in the sector. The document presents proposals for policies needed to enable the region’s agriculture to regain its former buoyancy and to enhance the development of rural areas. It also includes recommendations designed to mitigate the impact of the economic slowdown in agriculture, spur higher agricultural productivity in the region, foster the integrated management of natural resources, and facilitate the successful incorporation of family farmers, young people, and rural women into agricultural value chains.

Desenvolvimento em (des) construção: narrativas escalares sobre desenvolvimento territorial rural

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Transformando Terra em Território: construção e dinâmica do sistema local territorial agroecológico em Francisco Beltrão, Paraná

Pós-graduação em Geografia - FCT

Rural development and communication: a community media project in Uttar Pradesh (India)

Loaded with 16% of the world’s population, India is a challenged country. More than a third of its citizens live below the poverty line - on less than a dollar a day. These people have no proper electricity, no proper drinking water supply, no proper sanitary facilities and well over 40% are illiterates. More than 65% live in rural areas and 60% earn their livelihood from agriculture. Only a meagre 3.63% have access to telephone and less than 1% have access to a computer. Therefore, providing access to timely information on agriculture, weather, social, health care, employment, fishing, is of utmost importance to improve the conditions of rural poor. After some introductive chapters, whose function is to provide a comprehensive framework – both theoretical and practical – of the current rural development policies and of the media situation in India and Uttar Pradesh, my dissertation presents the findings of the pilot project entitled “Enhancing development support to rural masses through community media activity”, launched in 2005 by the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lucknow (U.P.) and by the local NGO Bharosa. The project scope was to involve rural people and farmers from two villages of the district of Lucknow (namely Kumhrava and Barhi Gaghi) in a three-year participatory community media project, based on the creation, implementation and use of a rural community newspaper and a rural community internet centre. Community media projects like this one have been rarely carried out in India because the country has no proper community media tradition: therefore the development of the project has been a challenge for the all stakeholders involved.

Promoting local innovation - a tool for sustainable rural development

Change, be it socio-cultural, political, institutional, technological, economic or ecological motivates local communities and farming families to mobilise and increase their innovation potential in order to create ways of life and production that match their own visions and priorities. In spite of the growing recognition of the potential of local innovations, they are hardly being integrated into development plans and projects; as a consequence, their diffusion within and between communities is limited. therefore interactive and participatory methods for supporting and strengthening the innovative potential of local actors are valuable inputs for sustainable rural development. the article presents an approach to promote local innovations.

Mission Report: Backstopping the monitoring of the Rural Development Programe in Northern Mozambique, 2 to 17 July 2005

CDE Mission report

Mission Report August 2005: Backstopping the monitoring of the Rural Development Programe in Northern Mozambique

Full mission report on an impact monitoring workshop held in Nampula with Helvetas and other implementing agencies of SDC Rural Development Programme, Northern Mozambique

El desarrollo rural y las contribuciones de la Psicología : Un estado de la cuestión

En todo el mundo, el 70 de la población pobre vive en áreas rurales. A pesar de los programas para revertir la pobreza, los resultados han sido limitados. El desarrollo rural busca reducir la desigualdad. Varios obstáculos que se les presentan a estos programas son psicosociales. El objetivo de este trabajo es explorar y describir las vinculaciones entre la Psicología y los procesos de desarrollo rural territorial en 111 publicaciones aparecidas entre 1985 y 2012. En la revisión, se encontró que los constructos utilizados fueron, entre otros, percepción, creencias, decisión, actitudes, participación y fortalecimiento. La Psicología puede realizar contribuciones al desarrollo rural territorial

El desarrollo rural y las contribuciones de la Psicología : Un estado de la cuestión

En todo el mundo, el 70 de la población pobre vive en áreas rurales. A pesar de los programas para revertir la pobreza, los resultados han sido limitados. El desarrollo rural busca reducir la desigualdad. Varios obstáculos que se les presentan a estos programas son psicosociales. El objetivo de este trabajo es explorar y describir las vinculaciones entre la Psicología y los procesos de desarrollo rural territorial en 111 publicaciones aparecidas entre 1985 y 2012. En la revisión, se encontró que los constructos utilizados fueron, entre otros, percepción, creencias, decisión, actitudes, participación y fortalecimiento. La Psicología puede realizar contribuciones al desarrollo rural territorial

El desarrollo rural y las contribuciones de la Psicología : Un estado de la cuestión

En todo el mundo, el 70 de la población pobre vive en áreas rurales. A pesar de los programas para revertir la pobreza, los resultados han sido limitados. El desarrollo rural busca reducir la desigualdad. Varios obstáculos que se les presentan a estos programas son psicosociales. El objetivo de este trabajo es explorar y describir las vinculaciones entre la Psicología y los procesos de desarrollo rural territorial en 111 publicaciones aparecidas entre 1985 y 2012. En la revisión, se encontró que los constructos utilizados fueron, entre otros, percepción, creencias, decisión, actitudes, participación y fortalecimiento. La Psicología puede realizar contribuciones al desarrollo rural territorial

Organizational Capability of Local Societies in Rural Development: A Comparative Study of Microfinance Organizations in Thailand and the Philippines

The importance of organizing local people for development work is widely recognized. Both governmental and non-governmental agencies have implemented various projects that have needed and encouraged collective action by people. Often, however, such projects malfunction after the outside agencies retreat from the project site, suggesting that making organizations is not the same as making a system of making organizations. The latter is essential to make rural organizations self-reliant and sustainable. This paper assumes that such a system exists in local societies and focuses on the capacity of local societies for creating and managing organizations for development. It reveals that (1) such capability differs according to the locality, (2) the difference depends on the structure of the organizations that coordinate people's social relations, and (3) the local administrative bodies define, at least partly, the organizational capability of local societies. We compare two rural societies, one in Thailand and the other in the Philippines, which show clear contrasts in both the form of microfinance organizations and the way of making these organizations.

Migration as a rural development strategy and the migrants involved : an account of a migrants' hometown in Sichuan, China

This paper attempts to describe part of the history of Chinese rural migration to urban industrial areas. Using a case study of a township in Sichuan, the author examines a type of rural development which she defines as a "bottom-up" style strategy of regional development. Different types of social mobility are observed in the case study, and over its long history, migration in the township has offered diverse means of social mobility to the local peasants. The paper concludes by considering the diversity and limits of Chinese social mobility at this stage.