| By A. Bebbington and A. Kopp | Published in Unasylva vol. 49(3): 11-18 | Summary: The sustainability of rural development initiatives (including forestry) depends greatly on the capacities of the institutions involved, the relationships among them and their relative power. Therefore a strategy to foster pluralistic approaches to rural development should focus on building […]
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Demand led and poverty oriented …. or just (semi-)privatized and efficient? Learning from privatized technology transfer programmes in Chile
| By A.Bebbington and O. Sotomayor | Published in the Journal of International Development, vol. 10 (1): 17-34 | Abstract: In the search for alternatives to state‐managed agricultural research and extension, there has been much interest in assessing the pros and cons of, and the mechanisms for, varying forms of private sector involvement. One experience of […]
Sustaining the Andes: social capital and rural regeneration in Bolivia
|By Anthony Bebbington | Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 18(2):173-181 | Abstract: This paper extends debates about social capital to an analysis of the role of local institutions in establishing environmentally-sustainable development in the Bolivian Andes. Currently, neo-liberal orthodoxies assume an Andean environmental crisis without acknowledging that local adaptation by local inhabitants may reduce exposure to risk, and […]
Indigenous Irrigation Organizations and the Formation of Social Capital in Northern Highland Ecuador
| By T.Perreault, A. Bebbington and T.Carroll | Published in the Conference of Latin American Geographers Yearbook, Volume 24: 1-16 | Abstract: Recent debates on the role of social capital in development are of relevance to nature-society analysis within geography because they highlight the ways in which forms of social organization can increase the effectiveness, equity and […]