"Applying a feminist and environmentalist approach to her investigation of how the changing global economy affects rural women, Carolyn Sachs focuses on land ownership and use, cropping systems, and women's work with animals in highly industrialized as well as developing countri…
"Applying a feminist and environmentalist approach to her investigation of how the changing global economy affects rural women, Carolyn Sachs focuses on land ownership and use, cropping systems, and women's work with animals in highly industrialized as well as developing countri…
"Reversed Realities uncovers the deeply entrenched, hence barely visible, biases which underpin mainstream development theory and account for the marginal status given to women's needs in current development policy. Naila Kabeer traces the emergence of 'women' as a specific cate…
The second volume, Integrating Ecology and Poverty Reduction: The Application of Ecology in Development Solutions, addresses ways in which ecology can be applied in the context of education, gender relations, demography, markets and governance to address many of the challenges a…
In the past, the science of ecology has frequently been excluded from the development agenda for various reasons. Increasingly however there has been a renewed interest in finding more ecologically sustainable means of development that have required a strong foundation in ecolog…
At the International Geographical Union's 20th Congress, held in Glasgow in 2004, the Commission on the Sustainability of Rural Systems' sessions included a range of papers relating to sustainable agriculture and sustainable rural communities. This book brings together some of t…
The new and powerful methodology of participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM & E) is gaining wide use among international development agencies and research institutions around the world. PM & E brings together both researchers and stakeholders, such as farmers, government of…
"Significant because [it] traces the development process from the non-industrial societies to present-day socialist nations, includes scholars from the first and third worlds, and provides data for a comparative analysis of structural changes in gender relations, links productio…
Nothing could be more valuable than creating a new paradigm in economics, particularly in the field of agricultural development. A notable example is T. Schultz's (1964) thesis regarding "efficient but poor" small-scale farmers in low-income or developing countries. No less i…
This book examines the history of reforms and major state interventions affecting Russian agriculture: the abolition of serfdom in 1861, the Stolypin reforms, the NEP, the Collectivization, Khrushchev reforms, and finally farm enterprise privatization in the early 1990s. It sho…
A selection of seasoned practitioners tackle the vexing 'parks versus people' debate by looking at whether tourism can serve both conservation and development objectives.
Shifting global consumption patterns, tastes and attitudes towards food, leisure, travel and place have opened new opportunities for rural producers in the form of agritourism, ecotourism, wine, food and rural tourism and specialized niche market agricultural production for tour…
Whose development? an ethnography of aid
An ethnography of development in practice, this book builds on recent work in the anthropology of development in its examination of the evolution and persistence of a number of key ideas about gender, technology and race.
