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Communication for social change in Latin America: contexts, theories, and experiences

The author highlights the contributions of four Latin American thinkers and activists in relation to communication for social change. Arguing that development activities are about communicating on various levels, and are deeply embedded in the cultures of ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:42

Emergency Social Funds: the experience of Bolivia and Peru

The World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) believe that the increase in poverty as a result of Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) is a short-term consequence and that the benefits of SAPs filter down, in the longer term, to the least privil ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:55

Knowledge, communication, development: a perspective from Latin America

Knowledge in development has been perceived as a one-way commodity that developed nations could bring ‘down to’ the level of ‘developing countries’. Sharing knowledge is generally seen as a North–South operation. This vertical approach to knowledge in dev ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:02

Participatory domestication of agroforestry trees: an example from the Peruvian Amazon

Valuable tree genetic resources are declining around many farming communities in the Peruvian Amazon, limiting farmers' options for economic development. The International Centre for Research in Agroforestry is working with farming communities to increase ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:07

Dissident Women: Gender and Cultural Politics in Chiapas

Author:  Speed, Shannon R., Aída Hernández Castillo, and Lynn M. Stephen (eds.) Publisher:  ...

Book review - admin - 2009-12-22 08:48

The Dictionary of Contemporary Politics of Central America and the Caribbean

Author:  Gunson, P., G. Chamberlain, and A. Thompson Issue:  ...

Book review - admin - 2009-12-17 12:54

Rural development and migration in Mexico

This article analyses one of the causes of migration in rural Mexico through the lens of US foreign assistance policy. US aid to Mexico – the largest migrant-sending country to the USA by far – does not sufficiently take into account the con ...

Abstract - dwardle - 2013-04-30 12:07

How can the poor benefit from private investment in agricultural research? A case study from Bolivia

This article evaluates potential mechanisms for facilitating increased private sector engagement in agricultural research for development and technology transfer (ARDTT), with particular emphasis on Bolivia. It reviews the mixed results of efforts, in dev ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:50

Banking on the poor: Peru's small- and micro-enterprise sector

Sixty per cent of Peru's urban workforce is employed within the small and micro enterprises (SMEs) which account for 95 per cent of all business in the country's manufacturing, commercial, and service sectors. But in spite of credit needs of some US$ 1,25 ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:57

Capacity building: who builds whose capacity?

This article focuses on the role that development NGOs play in capacity building, arguing that many conventional NGO practices are ultimately about retaining power, rather than empowering their partners. This leads to tunnel vision and to upward rather th ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:06