List of figures List of boxes List of tables Foreword Claude Martin Preface Acknowledgements Part I. Integrating Natural Resource Management: 1. The challenge: alleviating poverty and conserving the environment 2. Dealing with complexity 3. Getting into the system: multiple realities, social learning and adaptive management 4. issues of scale 5. Models, knowledge and negotiation Part II. Realities on the Ground: 6. Institutions for managing natural resources in African savannahs 7. Forest margins in Indonesian Borneo 8. Learning by doing on tropical American hillsides Part III. The Research-Management Continuum: 9. The spread of innovations 10. Measuring the performance of natural resource systems 11. Achieving research-based management Bibliography Index.

The Science of Sustainable Development: Local Livelihoods and the Global Environment

Several approaches to the study of poverty are discussed, to learn from their strengths as well as their weaknesses. For this purpose the concepts of marginality, social exclusion, new rurality and rural livelihoods, as well as the ethnic and gender dimensions of poverty, are examined. The debate on the peasantization (capitalization) or proletarianization (pauperization) of the peasantry sets the scene for the analysis of the different strategies adopted by peasants and rural labourers to secure their survival and perhaps achieve some prosperity. In examining the success or failure of interventions by governments, civil society and international organizations in the reduction of poverty, it is claimed that the State has a key role to perform. Furthermore, it is argued that poverty is caused and reproduced by the unequal distribution of resources and power at the household, local, national and international levels. Therefore, the starting point for the eradication of poverty has to be the implementation of a development strategy that addresses such inequalities while at the same time achieving competitiveness within the global system.

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Rural Poverty and Development Strategies in Latin America

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Perspectives on rural poverty and development strategies in Latin America

Survey Article Rural Poverty and Development Strategies in Latin America

The environmental consequences of Latin America's agricultural development: Some thoughts on the Brundtland Commission report

Analiza los elementos comunes de las diversas situaciones que presentan actualmente las agriculturas nacionales, que permiten configurar una vision de conjunto de la region e ilustra sobre el rumbo e intensidad de las transformaciones economicas y sociales que viene experimentando el agro latinoamericano. En el analisis se consideran algunos aspectos relevantes del nuevo marco agricola mundial que influyeron en grado diverso en el comportamiento de las agriculturas nacionales.

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Trends and recent changes in the Latin American food and agriculture situation

This article deals with the effects on agriculture of the economic policy associated with the crisis and the economic adjustment. T he author starts by recounting the most notable features of the macroeconomic policies which in relative terms marginalized agriculture from the most vigorous stimuluses of growth and of the specific policies designed to offset these effects. Before the crisis the combination of these policies had shaped a complex and costly pattern of agricultural development, the results of which were successful for a while with respect to the growth of agriculture in many countries, but failed with respect to equality and alleviation of rural poverty.

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Luis López Cordovez

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Trends and recent changes in the Latin American food and agriculture situation

Crisis, adjustment policies and agriculture