Title
Conceptualizing Spatial Diversity in Latin American Rural Development: Structures, Institutions, and Coalitions
Date Issued
01 September 2015
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Group for the Analysis of Development
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Ltd
Abstract
This article is the introduction to a volume containing findings from a program conducted over five years in 11 Latin America countries, to answer three questions: (1) Are there rural territories that have experienced simultaneous economic growth, poverty reduction, and improved distribution of income?; (2) What factors determine these territorial dynamics?, and, (3) What can be done to stimulate and promote this kind of territorial dynamics? The article outlines the analytical and policy issues and the methodology, summarizes the remaining 10 papers in the collection, and presents a conceptual framework that itself is one of the results of the program.
Start page
1
End page
10
Volume
73
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias del medio ambiente
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84928932489
Source
World Development
ISSN of the container
0305750X
Sponsor(s)
The articles included in this special issue of World Development are a product of the Rural Territorial Dynamics (RTD) program ( www.rimisp.org/dtr ), implemented by a regional network of partners and coordinated by Rimisp-Latin American Center for Rural Development, with the aid of a generous grant from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Ottawa, Canada, and additional support from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the New Zealand Aid Program. The authors acknowledge the contribution to this article of a group of partners that participated in the preparation of the final report of the RTD program: Arilson Favareto, M. Ignacia Fernández, Pablo Ospina, Helle Munk Ravnborg, Francisco Aguirre, Manuel Chiriboga, Ileana Gómez, Ligia Gómez, Félix Modrego, Susan Paulson, Eduardo RamÃrez, Alexander Schejtman and Carolina Trivelli. We are grateful to three anonymous referees whose intelligent and constructive criticism allowed us to improve the article. We thank Gilles Cliche for his outstanding management of the editorial process of the special issue and of this article in particular. As guest editors of this special issue, but also on behalf of all the authors involved in its preparation, we dedicate this special issue to the memory of Manuel Chiriboga, outstanding intellectual, policy maker and activist of Latin American rural development and all round wonderful human-being
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