Non-Governmental Organizations and the State in Latin America Rethinking Roles in Sustainable Agricultural Development

Name: Non-Governmental Organizations and the State in Latin America Rethinking Roles in Sustainable Agricultural Development
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ISBN: 9780415088466

ISBN-10: 0415088461

ISBN-13: 9780415088466

Edition: 1993

Authors: Anthony Bebbington, Graham Thiele

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This book presents twenty specially commissioned case studies of farmer participatory approaches to agricultural innovation initiated by non-governmental organizations in Latin America. Beginning with a broad review of institutional activity at the grassroots level, the authors set the case material within the context of NGO relations with the state and their contribution to democratization and the consolidation of rural civil society. The book raises specific questions about how useful NGOs can be in promoting technological innovation and addressing constraints to change in present agriculture, how effective they are at strengthening grassroots organizations, and how donor pressures…

Book details

List price: $89.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 11/15/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 324
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.14" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

Anthony Bebbington is Milton P. and Alice C. Higgins Professor of Environment and Society at Clark University, where he is also Director of the Graduate School of Geography.

Graham Thiele is formerly of Lincoln University, New Zealand.



List of figures


List of tables


List of boxes


Foreword


Preface


Acknowledgements


List of abbreviations



Introduction



Democratizing Agricultural Development? Concepts for Analysing NGOs, the State and Agricultural Development in Latin America



NGOs, the State and Rural Development: Changes in Sociopolitical Context Since the 1960s



From Modernization to a New Technological Agenda: Campesinos and Technological Change in Latin America



Institutions for the New Technological Agenda: NGOs and NARS



Institutional Changes in the Latin American ATS: Creating Room for Manoeuvre in NGO-NARS Collaboration?



Making NGO-NARS Relations Work: The Evidence on Linkage Mechanisms



NGOs, the State and Agriculture in Central America




Conclusions: Rethinking Roles for NGOs and the State: Challenges of a New Agenda for Agricultural Development


Annex 1: Case Studies Commissioned During the Research


Annex 2: Case-Study Profiles


Annex 3: Various Development Indicators: Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru


References


Index