Constructing A New Framework For Rural Development: Research In Rural Sociology And Development Hardcover English - 1-Dec-15

This volume seeks to answer modern questions and concerns regarding peasants, their production techniques, and their links to wider society. In the past, peasants and their seemingly simple production models have been criticized for being unable to fully meet the needs of modern society, especially when it comes to world hunger, food quality, and sustainability. However, often neglected is the myriad of new initiatives that alter the way food is produced and marketed. New 'peasant markets' are created everywhere and new products and services abound. This volume argues that these initiatives represent 'seeds of transition'; they are the 'sprouts' out of which new socio-technical modes for organizing production and marketing emerge - 'sprouts' that, taken together, can be summarized as 'rural development'. 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.

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Emerald Publishing Limited

1-Dec-15

352

Pierluigi Milone

Flaminia Ventura

Editors Milone, Ventura, and Ye present students, academics, researchers, and policymakers with a collection of scholarly articles and academic essays investigating the life, status in wider society, and food production techniques of rural poor throughout the world. The thirteen contributions that make up the main body of the text cover a wide variety of related subjects, including actors and practices in rural development, theoretical perspectives on developmental practice and practitioners, peasant innovation and grassroots action in China, and others. Pierluigi Milone and Flaminia Ventura are faculty members of Perugia University, Italy. Jingzhong Ye is a faculty member of China Agricultural University. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. --Annotation 2015 Ringgold Inc. Portland, OR (protoview)

Jingzhong Ye