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Assessment of the growth in social groups for sustainable agriculture and land management

Until the past half-century, all agriculture and land management was framed by local institutions strong in social capital. But neoliberal forms of development came to undermine existing structures, thus reducing sustainability and equity. The past 20 years, though, have seen the deliberate establis...

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Main Authors: Pretty, J., Attwood, S., Bawden, R., Berg, H. van den, Bharucha, Z.P., Dixon, J., Flora, C.B., Gallagher, K., Genskow, K., Hartley, S.E., Ketelaar, Johannes W., Kiara, J.K., Kumar, V., Lu, Yuelai, MacMillan, T., Maréchal, A., Morales Abubakar, A.L., Noble, A., Vara Prasad, P.V.V., Rametsteiner, E., Reganold, John P., Ricks, J.I., Rockström, Johan, Saito, O., Thorne, Peter J., Wang, Songliang, Wittman, H., Winter, M., Yang, Puyun
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge University Press 2020
Subjects:
sustainable agriculture
land management
agriculture
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/109023
Summary:Until the past half-century, all agriculture and land management was framed by local institutions strong in social capital. But neoliberal forms of development came to undermine existing structures, thus reducing sustainability and equity. The past 20 years, though, have seen the deliberate establishment of more than 8 million new social groups across the world. This restructuring and growth of rural social capital within specific territories is leading to increased productivity of agricultural and land management systems, with particular benefits for those previously excluded. Further growth would occur with more national and regional policy support.

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