Rural Development: Actors and Practices
Constructing a New Framework for Rural Development
ISBN: 978-1-78441-622-5, eISBN: 978-1-78441-621-8
Publication date: 9 March 2015
Abstract
From a more general point of view the initiatives and novel practices of farmers represent ‘seeds of transition’. They are the ‘sprouts’ out of which new socio-technical modes for organizing production and marketing emerge – ‘sprouts’ that, taken together can be described under the term ‘rural development’. The examples are, on the whole, well-known; they include agro-ecological production, on-farm processing, agro-tourism, new credit associations and cooperative forms of commercialization. But it remains important to develop a more sociological interpretation of these new forms: since they are produced by social actors and are constantly redefined and modified through the relations and interactions implied by these new forms. This chapter defines the outline on actors and practices that will be discussed in later chapters of the book.
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Citation
van der Ploeg, J.D., Ye, J. and Schneider, S. (2015), "Rural Development: Actors and Practices", Constructing a New Framework for Rural Development (Research in Rural Sociology and Development, Vol. 22), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 17-30. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1057-192220150000022001
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:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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