Achieving Sustainable Communities in a Global Economy

Download or read book Achieving Sustainable Communities in a Global Economy written by Ralph D. Christy and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2004 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book explores alternative strategies in agriculturaland rural development to address the impacts of globalizationprocesses on smallholder agriculturalists and marginalized ruralpeople. Its goal is twofold: (1) to identify and assess the keyprocesses by which globalization is affecting the smallholderagricultural and rural sectors; and (2) to identify and propose bothmicro- and macro-level policies and other strategies to deal with theproblems that arise.