Mediating sustainability : growing policy from the grassroots /
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| Imprint: | West Hartford, CT : Kumarian Press, 1998. |
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| Description: | xviii, 286 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3763146 |
Table of Contents:
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Editors, Contributors, and Study Group Participants
- Introduction
- The Art of Mediation: Growing Policy from the Grassroots
- Part I. Policies and Actors in Mediation
- 1. Sustainable Agriculture Through Farmer Participation: Agricultural Research and Technology Development in Latin America's Risk-Prone Areas
- 2. NGOs: Mediators of Sustainability/Intermediaries in Transition?
- Part II. Measurement as Mediation
- 3. Widening the Lens on Impact Assessment: The Inter-American Foundation and Its Grassroots Development Framework--The Cone
- 4. Assessing the Merits of Participatory Development of Sustainable Agriculture: Experiences from Brazil and Central America
- Part III. Markets as Mediation
- 5. Moving Beyond Banana Trade Wars, 1993-96: Mediation in Solidarity for Sustainability
- 6. Dealing with and in the Global Economy: Fairer Trade in Latin America
- Part IV. Organizing for Mediation
- 7. Building Sustainable Farmer Forestry in Mexico: Campesino Organizations and Their Advisers
- 8. Organizing Across Borders: The Rise of a Transnational Peasant Movement in Central America
- 9. Conclusion: A Cautiously Optimistic Tale
- Abbreviations
- Index
