Smallholders, Forest Management and Rural Development in the Amazon

Smallholders, Forest Management and Rural Development in the Amazon
Author: Benno Pokorny
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2013-07-24
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1135105928

The ongoing debate concerning the Amazon's crucial role in global climate and biodiversity is entirely dependent upon sustainable development in the region. Recognizing that forests are an integral part of the social fabric in the region, initiatives such as community forestry, small-scale tree plantations and agroforestry, as well as payments for environmental services have aimed at conserving the natural forest landscape. At the same time these attempt to protect and enhance the well-being of poor local smallholders including indigenous groups, traditional communities and small farmers. Against this background, this book analyses numerous promising local tree and forest management initiatives taken by smallholders in the Bolivian, Brazilian, Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazon to better understand the key success factors. The insights gained from more than 100 case studies analyzed by researchers from Latin-America and Europe in cooperation with local stakeholders reveal the need for critical reflection on the initiatives targeting poor Amazonian families. The book discusses an operational vision of rural development grounded on the effective use of smallholders’ capacities to contribute to a sustainable and equitable development of the region. It provides helpful information and ideas not only for scientists, but also for development organisations, decision makers and all who are interested in one of the major challenges facing the Amazon: to combine equitable development with the conservation of its unique ecosystems.

Regional Development and Forgotten Spaces

Regional Development and Forgotten Spaces
Author: María del Carmen Sánchez-Carreira
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2023-07-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000907643

This book constitutes a novel contribution, combining recent theoretical developments and empirical contributions, as well as the recent and latest trends and challenges on the issue of Forgotten Spaces. Forgotten Spaces - like the Forgotten Regions, in particular - are spaces that in potential can and do create significant value (if their resources are properly rediscovered) and create many potential costs (if these spaces are increasingly neglected by economic agents). The editors have identified a gap in current research because there is not enough empirical evidence about these places, as well as about the role of their actors. Abandoning regions can lead to, for example, pollution, uncontrolled forest fires, vandalism heritage deterioration, and potentially untreated industrial facilities, carrying potential costs not only in environmental sustainability, but also in values such as landscape aesthetics. Thus, this book reflects on the dimensions of the identification of such Forgotten Spaces, on the design of policies focused on minimizing associated costs and on the scope of programs to promote these areas, not only for upgrading them but also for promoting their environmental sustainability. The comparative approach of the empirical part also allows knowledge and experience from diverse longitudes and latitudes. The editors highlight the richness of the experience of Latin American countries, the polarization and interesting experiences from several sector rediscovered in Europe, as well as the holistic cases coming from several African experiences. This book will attract the attention of academicians, politicians and ultimately the attention of all decision-makers who most likely are forgetting many of the Spaces around them.

Power and Horizontality in South-South Development Cooperation. The Case of Brazil and Mozambique

Power and Horizontality in South-South Development Cooperation. The Case of Brazil and Mozambique
Author: Jurek Seifert
Publisher: Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2020-02-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3832550704

The growing importance of new actors in the global political landscape is envisaged as a phenomenon that has led to shifts in international power relations. This is reflected in development cooperation. Countries like China, Brazil, India and South Africa have enhanced their cooperation programs and present their development cooperation as South-South Development cooperation (SSDC) which takes place between countries of the 'Global South'. Both practitioners and scholars ascribe a notion of solidarity and horizontality to South-South cooperation that allegedly distinguishes it from the relationship patterns commonly associated with North-South relations. However, power constellations between the emerging powers and most of their cooperation partners are often asymmetrical. This book asks whether the claim that South-South cooperation is conducted in a horizontal manner holds in practice in spite of these asymmetries. It revises the concept of South-South cooperation and identifies the central characteristics that are claimed to distinguish the Southern modality from Northern cooperation. It then investigates the relationship between Brazil and Mozambique during the period 2003-2014 to shed some light on the question whether South-South cooperation is different from 'traditional' development cooperation regarding the relations between cooperation partners. Jurek Seifert is a development cooperation expert. He holds a PhD from the University of Duisburg-Essen and has worked on South-South cooperation, development effectiveness and private sector engagement. He has conducted research at the BRICS Policy Center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and works in international development cooperation.

Feeding the World

Feeding the World
Author: Herbert S. Klein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2019
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108473091

Feeding the World documents the emergence of Brazil as an agricultural powerhouse during the second half of the twentieth century.

Political geography, geopolitics and territorial management: Brazilian perspectives

Political geography, geopolitics and territorial management: Brazilian perspectives
Author: Gutemberg de Vilhena Silva
Publisher: Editora Autografia
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2023-05-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 8551853163

This book aims to contribute to debates in the fields of political geography, geopolitics and territorial management from the point of view of authors who work in Brazilian universities in the five regions of the country.

Social Mobilization, Global Capitalism and Struggles over Food

Social Mobilization, Global Capitalism and Struggles over Food
Author: Renata Motta
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2016-04-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317053737

This book explores the transformation of Brazil and Argentina into two of the world’s largest producers of genetically modified (GM) crops. Systematically comparing their stories in order to explain their paths, differences, ruptures and changes, the author reveals that the emergence of the two nations as leading producers of GM crops cannot be explained by technological superiority of biotechnology; rather, their trajectories are the results of political struggles surrounding agrarian development, in which social movements and the rural poor contested the advancement of biotechnologically-based agrarian models, but have been silenced, ignored, or demobilized by a network of actors in favour of GM crops. Based on rich interview and media material collected amongst activists, the author highlights the importance of political struggles over GM crops not only to debates on agrarian futures and food security, but also as illustrations of the challenges faced by contemporary democracies. An international comparative study, this book raises the question of how social mobilization and rights claims can counter the systemic imperatives of global capitalism and political interests, at a time when regional governments are reliant on commodity booms, whilst globally, governments are obliged to introduce programmes of austerity. As such it will appeal to scholars of sociology, political science and geography with interests in social movements, development, globalization, inequality and political economy.

Handbook of the International Political Economy of Agriculture and Food

Handbook of the International Political Economy of Agriculture and Food
Author: Alessandro Bonanno
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2015-04-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1782548262

This book tackles the central question of the political and structural changes and characteristics that govern agriculture and food. Original contributions explore this highly globalized economic sector by analyzing salient geographical regions and sub

Advances in Agronomy

Advances in Agronomy
Author:
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2011-07-29
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0080468918

Volume 91 of Advances in Agronomy contains four indespensable reviews and over 30 descriptive figures. - Maintains the highest impact factor among serial publications in Agriculture - Presents timely reviews on important agronomy issues - Enjoys a long-standing reputation for excellence in the field