New Strategies for Rural Sustainable Development: Popular Participation, Food Self-Sufficiency, and Environmental Regeneration
Author(s)
Barkin, David
Abstract
Today’s global economy, based on the international expansion of capital, is integrating resources and people into a dual economy in which great wealth is generated alongside great poverty and despoliation. Such polarization imposes a burden on society. To defend their culture and livelihoods and save their environment, the rural poor need to consciously de-link from the global economy in critical areas, creating autonomous productive systems they can control and defend.
