Author: Helle Munk RavnborgPublisher: CIAT
ISBN: 9586940233
Category : Poverty
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Developing Regional Poverty Profiles Based on Local Perceptions
Author: Helle Munk RavnborgPublisher: CIAT
ISBN: 9586940233
Category : Poverty
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Unpacking Globalization
Author: Linda E. LucasPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739121580
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Unpacking Globalization examines the experiences of people living with the forces that are transforming economic systems, culture, gender relationships and governance. The book offers interdisciplinary analysis of the well-being of women and men as they cope with the changes of globalization. Through theory, case studies, and data, several themes emerge indicating that from the household to the continental level, change is leading to new awareness and new survival strategies for both women and men. The contributors to the volume come from Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America. They present analysis of global changes and historical background from diverse perspectives and offer case studies on social security, gender, and macroeconomy. They employ feminist theory as well as detail the experiences of current and future women entrepreneurs. An exciting interdisciplinary text, Unpacking Globalization can supplement women's studies, anthropology, sociology, and economic development courses.
Participatory Research and Gender Analysis
Author: Nina LiljaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317986857
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Agricultural development research aims to generate new knowledge or to retrieve and apply existing forms of knowledge in ways that can be used to improve the welfare of people who are living in poverty or are otherwise excluded, for instance by gender-based discrimination. Its effective application therefore requires ongoing dialogue with and the strong engagement of men and women from poor marginal farming communities. This book discusses opportunities afforded by effective knowledge pathways linking researchers and farmers, underpinned by participatory research and gender analysis. It sets out practices and debates in gender-sensitive participatory research and technology development, concentrating on the empirical issues of implementation, impact assessment, and institutionalisation of approaches for the wider development and research community. It includes six full-length chapters and eight brief practical notes and is enhanced by an annotated resources list of relevant publications, organisations, and websites adding to the portfolio of approaches and tools discussed by the contributors. Most of the 33 contributing authors work in the specialised agencies that form part of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). This book was published as a special issue of Development in Practice.
The Characterization and Monitoring of Poverty
Author: Nicky PouwPublisher: Rozenberg Publishers
ISBN: 9051709633
Category : Farmers
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Investing in Farmers as Researchers. Experience with Local Agricultural Research Committees in Latin America
Author: Publisher: CIAT
ISBN: 9586940306
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Making World Development Work
Author: Grégoire LeclercPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826337337
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
"The authors reexamine world development - usually the province of economists - as professionals trained in the natural sciences. They show how we have and might use tested scientific and technical procedures and concepts, as well as science itself, to achieve much better results than what has been characteristic of the past. Leclerc and Hall contend that to scholars with a scientific background, the process of development, and the economic logic behind it, often look almost surrealistic. The basic question at the foundation of this review is this: Why should something so important as world development, something capable of absorbing such vast sums of money and of human goodwill, something that impacts the people and the environment so much, continue to be organized and planned using economic techniques and theories that are both unconfirmed experimentally and proven to have led to development failures?"--BOOK JACKET.
Unpacking Globalisation
Author: Prosperity in Rural Africa?
Author: Dan BrockingtonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198865872
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
"What does it mean to say that rural areas of Africa are poor? Many people insist that in rural African countries areas poverty is prevalent. This is either because the smallholder agricultural practices are unproductive or it is because economic policies have not protected and promoted African farming. But whether this deprivation is the fault of the peasant, or the government, both sides agree on the facts of rural poverty. However in both cases rural poverty is described using measures which make it hard, if not impossible, to capture new forms of wealth that rural people may be accruing. These new forms of wealth, which largely comprise productive assets, are especially important because they feature so prominently in rural people's own definitions of wealth. Using an unprecedented collection of longitudinal surveys, in which experienced researchers have revisited villages which they have known for decades, we track surprising increases in assets in diverse locations in Tanzania. These findings the result is a compilation which is fascinating in itself and important far understanding of rural economies development data and agricultural policy"--
Scaling Up Scaling Down
Author: Thomas J. MarchionePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134390971
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The individual and institutional capacities required for the prevention and reduction of nutritional insecurity and hunger in lesser-developed countries as the twenty-first century approaches are identified in this book. Household nutritional "security" can be defined as the successful The essays in this book champion the idea of increasing, or scaling up, grass roots operations to provide nutritional security, while scaling down the efforts of national and international institutions. Scaling up involves strengthening local capacities to improve and expand upon current successful programs by building upon existing local culture and organizations. This, in turn, enables the programs to strengthen relationships with national governments, international bilateral/multilateral donors, as well as non-governmental organizations. Scaling down concerns the ways and means by which these various organizations encourage and complement the local development. Therefore, as local capacities are scaled up, the national/international control over decisions and functions is, ideally, scaled down. The volume also directly addresses the resultant complication: how to create programs that are both culturally specific and that will flourish well into the future.
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