Rural development, nowadays, is considered almost synonymous with involvement in market exchange. When market and institutional failures prevail, however, rural communities increasingly rely on local institutional or contractual arrangements to guarantee their livelihoods. This book offers a comprehensive review of the debate on the importance of "real markets" in the Central American rural development process. The contributions address the performance of agrarian commodity markets, the structure of rural land and financial markets, and the dynamics of rural labour markets.
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Verlagsort
Basingstoke
Großbritannien
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Illustrationen
tables, graphs, figures, index
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Höhe: 222 mm
Breite: 141 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-333-73972-3 (9780333739723)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
RUERD RUBEN is Senior Lecturer in Development Economics at the Department of Economics and Management, Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands. He is Executive Secretary of the Board of the Foundation for Rural Development Research at Free University, Amsterdam. He has widely published on issues of rural organization, land reform and land markets, rural finance and agrarian policies for sustainable land use in Central America and West Africa. JOHAN BASTIAENSEN is a researcher at the Centre for Development Studies at UFSIA, University of Antwerp, Belgium. He is coordinating the academic collaboration between UFSIA and the Central American University (UCA) in Managua. He has been particularly involved in applied research programmes of the Nitlapan Research and Development Institute. His main topics of academic interest refer to peasant economies, rural institution building (in particular finance) and development promotion.
List of Tables - List of Figures - Notes on Contributors - INTRODUCTION - Rural Development in Central America: Markets, Livelihoods and Local Governance; R.Ruben & J.Bastiaensen - PART I: AGRARIAN COMMODITY MARKETS - Exchange Relations and Food Security: Maize and Markets in Honduras; H.Johnson - Small-scale Producers and the Sesame Commodity Chains under Structural Adjustment; N.A. Gonzales - The Hierarchical Legacy in Coffee Commodity Chains; R.Mendoza - PART II: LAND REFORM AND LAND MARKETS - Land Reform and Land Transfers in El Salvador; H.van Heijningen - Property Rights, Missing Markets and Agricultural Diversification: Consolidation of the Agrarian Reform in Masaya, Nicaragua; B.D'Excelle and J.Bastiaensen - Transformation of Co-operative Organizations: Pathways of Change for Agricultural Production Cooperatives in Lesn-Cinandega, Nicaragua; J.Vaessen, O.Cortiz and R.Ruben - PART III: RURAL FINANCIAL MARKETS - Rural Finance and Poverty Alleviation in Central America: Evaluation and Challenges; O.N.Feinstein - Institutional Entrepreneurship for Rural Development: the Banking Network of Nitlapan in Nicaragua; J.Bastiaensen - Credit and Rural Income: Biases in Credit Supply by Semi-Formal Financial Institutions in Nueva Guinea, Nicaragua; A.Sanders, H.Clemens and E.Mol - PART IV: LABOUR MARKETS AND TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE - Farmers' Selective Participation in Rural Markets: Off-farm Employment in Honduras: R.Ruben and M.van den Berg - Seasonal Migration and Peasant Livelihood Strategies: Migration of Nicaraguan Smallholders to Costa Rica; G.Ton - Low and High-External Input Agriculture in the Agrarian Frontier; M. Bourgondiin - Index
