Frans Schryer, Farming in a Global Economy: A Case Study of Immigrant Farmers in Canada

Review of Farming in a Global Economy: A Case Study of Immigrant Farmers in Canada, by Frans Schrye

Book Review (Submitted by Cornelia Butler Flora) - Food and the Mid-Level Farm: Renewing Agriculture in the Middle

Food and the Mid-Level Farm: Renewing Agriculture in the Middle, Edited by Thomas A. Lyson, G.W. Stevenson, and Rick Welsh. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 2008. ISBN # 978-0-262-12299-3. $25 paper

A Vision for the Northern Great Plains

This essay presents a number of positive alternatives for the future of the rural Northern Great Plains. A number of trends occurring in the 1990s are used to assemble this vision, such as sustainable agriculture, information technology, wireless communication, and small communities working together in mutual interest. This vision identifies the important role of social capital and social relationships as rising in value over a consumer oriented society. The strength of a positive vision exists in its ability to fire people to actively seek these ends, [ed.

Developing Entrepreneurial Rural Communities

Rural communities in the United States have diversified and their dependence onagriculture has decreased substantially. In the 1980s, rural deindustrialization occurredand rural areas continued to become more service oriented: employment opportunitiesdeclined because of shifts in the world and U.S. economies, and anti-rural publicpolicies. In response, some rural communities have become entrepreneurial communities,whose characteristics include: healthy acceptance of controversy; a degree ofeconomic surplus to allow for risk-taking; willingness of community to tax itself tomaintain infrastructure and schools; the ability to define community broadly and tonetwork both vertically and horizontally to obtain resources; and dispersed communityleadership. Entrepreneurial behavior in the context of more favorable state and federalpolicies could help stabilize many rural communities

Climate Justice in Latin America

The Center for Latin American Studies is pleased to announce the interdisciplinary series Climate Justice in Latin America, which will take place over the 2013-14 academic year. The first event, Gender, features sociologists Cornelia Flora and Stephanie Buechler, and was be moderated by Kendra McSweeney (Department of Geography, The Ohio State University).Ohio State University. Mershon Center for International Security Studies.Center for Latin American Studies.School of Environment and Natural Resources.Department of GeographyEvent Web Pag

ACCIÓN COLECTIVA DE CONSORCIOS LOCALES PARA LA GOBERNANZA AMBIENTAL: UN ANÁLISIS A PARTIR DE LOS CAPITALES DE LA COMUNIDAD

The establishment of local consortia within territories shared by different groups is a new experience for environmental governance in Central America. This initiative has promoted concrete political, economic and environmental actions that seek to improve peoples´ livelihoods and the sustainable use of natural resources. In this article, using systematization methodology and the Community Capital Framework, the main lessons learned from the process of creation of six local consortia by an international environmental organization working in a Central America region are described. Los consorcios locales en zonas transfronterizas son una experiencia novedosa de gobernanza ambiental en Centroamérica. Estas iniciativas han promovido acciones concretas de carácter político, económico y social que buscan mejorar los medios de vida de la gente y el mejor uso de los recursos naturales. En este artículo, utilizando la sistematización y el marco de los capitales de la comunidad, se resaltan las principales lecciones aprendidas del proceso de conformación de seis consorcios impulsado por una organización ambiental internacional que trabaja en la región centroamericana.