Sustainable rural development in Latin America: building from the bottom-up

Altieri, Miguel A.; Masera, Omar

doi:10.1016/0921-8009(93)90049-c

Cited by 57 publications

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“…To bridge this gap essentially requires an adapted model of local participation, which should be based upon the development of a deep understanding of the participatory behaviors of the poor at the grassroots level. Correspondently, a bottom-up approach in research and policymaking should be necessarily adopted in order to replace or supplement the traditional top-down approach (Altieri & Masera, 1993;Murray & Greer, 1992). Some more concrete methods to foster local participation in impoverished destinations have also been recommended, such as decentralisation of public administration system, fundamental changes in socio-political, legal and economic structure, involvement of non-government organisations (NGOs) and donor agencies, collaboration and cooperation of international tour operators and multinationals, and dissolution of cultural barriers (Tosun, 2000(Tosun, , 2006.…”

Section: Local Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourism and Poverty Alleviation: An Integrative Research Framework

Zhao

Ritchie

2007

Current Issues in Tourism

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The past decade has seen an upsurge of interest from the governments and development organisations in a tourism-based approach to poverty alleviation. More specifically, poverty alleviation has been established as a major priority within the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) itself, as is evidenced by the launching of the concept of ST-EP (Sustainable Tourism as an effective tool for Eliminating Poverty). In contrast, the implications of tourism for poverty alleviation have been largely neglected by the tourism academic community. Relevant research to date is fragmented, limited in scope, and lacks a consistent methodological development. To address these deficiencies, this paper presents an integrative research framework, which synthesises multiple perspectives and can be used as an overarching guideline to stimulate and guide other future enquiries on tourism and poverty alleviation. Towards this end, a number of research needs and opportunities have also been identified and suggested along with the presentation of the framework.

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Section: Local Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourism and Poverty Alleviation: An Integrative Research Framework

Zhao

Ritchie

2007

Current Issues in Tourism

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“…Inclusive, participatory stakeholder negotiation can help align local socio-cultural and global environmental concerns (Altieri & Masera, 1993;Dewalt, 1994;Saxena et al, 2001;Frost et al, 2006). Without commitment from rural communities, landscape approaches are unlikely to succeed, potentially resulting in community members returning to previous destructive practices (Cao et al, 2009) or circumventing restrictions in favour of high-return, high environmental cost land-use practices (Sen et al, 1997;Nautiyal et al, 1998).…”

Section: Key Aspects Of An Effective Landscape Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrated landscape approaches to managing social and environmental issues in the tropics: learning from the past to guide the future

Reed

Vianen

Deakin

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Global Change Biology

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Poverty, food insecurity, climate change and biodiversity loss continue to persist as the primary environmental and social challenges faced by the global community. As such, there is a growing acknowledgement that conventional sectorial approaches to addressing often inter-connected social, environmental, economic and political challenges are proving insufficient. An alternative is to focus on integrated solutions at landscape scales or 'landscape approaches'. The appeal of landscape approaches has resulted in the production of a significant body of literature in recent decades, yet confusion over terminology, application and utility persists. Focusing on the tropics, we systematically reviewed the literature to: (i) disentangle the historical development and theory behind the framework of the landscape approach and how it has progressed into its current iteration, (ii) establish lessons learned from previous land management strategies, (iii) determine the barriers that currently restrict implementation of the landscape approach and (iv) provide recommendations for how the landscape approach can contribute towards the fulfilment of the goals of international policy processes. This review suggests that, despite some barriers to implementation, a landscape approach has considerable potential to meet social and environmental objectives at local scales while aiding national commitments to addressing ongoing global challenges.

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“…In the current era of market integration, there is a growing concern among crop scientists that the purported homogenising forces of globalisation will transform rural livelihood strategies and displace the peasant agricultural practices that are fundamental to the in situ conservation of crop genetic resources (Altieri 2004, Altieri and Masera 1993, Wilkes 1992. A handful of researchers have attempted to 1 However, as research by Perales et al (1998) has shown, the yields (and net income returns) from modern seed varieties are not necessarily superior to traditional landraces.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%