Constructing a new framework for rural development / / edited by Pierluigi Milone, DICA, Perugia University, Perugia, Italy, Flaminia Ventura, DICA, Perugia University, Perugia, Italy, Jingzhong Ye, COHD, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

• Pubblicazione: Bingley, England : , : Emerald, , 2015; ©2015
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (347 p.)
• Disciplina: 307.1412
• Soggetto topico: Rural development; Community development
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): MilonePierluigi; VenturaFlaminia; YeJingzhong
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Constructing a New Framework for Rural Development; Copyright page; Contents; List of Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction; The Circularity of the Model and Reproducibility of Resources; The Multifunctional Unit and Valorization of Labor; Going Beyond the Myth of Marginality: Peasants and the Culture of Progress; Political Action between Peasant and Scientific Knowledge; Notes; Acknowledgement; References; Chapter 2: Rural Development: Actors and Practices; Introduction; The Main Actors in Rural Development; Rural Development Practices; On Actors and Practices; Notes; References ; Chapter 3: Activities, Actants and Actors: Theoretical Perspectives on Development Practice and PractitionersSimilarities and Differences between the Perspectives; Three Ethnographic Cases; Philippine NGO Study: Actors, Discourses and Interfaces; The Dynamics of Rural Development in Benin; Participatory Development, Local Leaders and Development Implementors in Rural China; Some Concluding Remarks; Notes; References; Chapter 4: Is Multifunctionality the Road to Empowering Farmers?; Introduction; Overcoming Scarcity and Re-Appropriating Power; Regaining Market Power: The Italian Experience ; The Re-Appropriation of Political Power: Dutch Environmental CooperativesOvercoming Dogmas: Riverford Farm - Home Delivery versus Supermarkets; Multifunctionality: A Choice for Protecting Agricultural Assets; Conclusions; Notes; References; Chapter 5: Peasant Innovation and Grassroots Action in China; Introduction; Peasants' Innovation and Grassroots Action; Technology Domain; Political Domain; Institutions; Contracting the Land to the Household; Being Peasants and Also Merchants; Buying and Selling with Special Registrations; Governance; Economic Domain; Social Domain ; Development InnovationsDevelopment Actions; Cultural Sphere; Other Related Research; Analysis of the Mechanisms of Peasant Actions; Characteristics of Behaviours; The Theory of Survival Rationality; The Theory of Economic Rationality; The Theory of Socialized Farmers; Analysis of Motivations; Analysis of Influencing Factors; Conclusion: Who Rules Development?; Notes; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 6: Seeds and Sprouts of Rural Development: Innovations and Nested Markets in Small Scale On-Farm Processing by Family Farmers in South Brazil; Introduction ; Innovations and Novelties by Social ActorsTraditional "Colonial" Farming and the Modern Agricultural Squeeze; The Trajectories of Two Small Scale On-Farm Processing Activities - The Cases of Biorga and Ludke; Novelties and Autonomy: How Do They Evolve?; New Social Organizations and Nested Markets; Some Final Remarks; Notes; References; Chapter 7: Hidden Treasures: Reconnecting Culture and Nature in Rural Development Dynamics; A Hidden Treasure; Omnipresent and Invisible; The Brazilian Semi-Arid Region and the Imaginary of the Droughts; Full of Opportunities, Rich in Life ; The Emergence of the Brazilian Semi-Arid Alliance
• Sommario/riassunto: This book critically discusses these new practices and the actors engaged in them. In doing so, it deals with several countries in three different continents (Asia, South America and Europe). It proposes new concepts and approaches for a better understanding of the re-emergence of peasants as indispensable part of modern societies.
• Titolo autorizzato: Constructing a new framework for rural development
• ISBN: 1-78441-621-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463609503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Research in rural sociology and development ; ; Volume 22.