Non-Governmental Organizations and the State in Latin America: Rethinking Roles in Sustainable Agricultural Development

by Bebbington,Anthony

• ISBN13: 9780415088466
• ISBN10: 0415088461
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1993-11-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book presents twenty specially commissioned case studies of farmer participatory approaches to agricultural innovation initiated by non-governmental organizations in Latin America. Beginning with a broad review of institutional activity at the grassroots level, the authors set the case material within the context of NGO relations with the state and their contribution to democratization and the consolidation of rural civil society. The book raises specific questions about how useful NGOs can be in promoting technological innovation and addressing constraints to change in present agriculture, how effective they are at strengthening grassroots organizations, and how donor pressures influence NGOs and their links to the state.

Table of Contents

List of figures
List of tables
List of boxes
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction	p. 1
Democratizing Agricultural Development? Concepts for Analysing NGOs, the State and Agricultural Development in Latin America	p. 13
NGOs, the State and Rural Development: Changes in Sociopolitical Context Since the 1960s	p. 30
From Modernization to a New Technological Agenda: Campesinos and Technological Change in Latin America	p. 60
Institutions for the New Technological Agenda: NGOs and NARS	p. 74
Institutional Changes in the Latin American ATS: Creating Room for Manoeuvre in NGO-NARS Collaboration?	p. 114
Making NGO-NARS Relations Work: The Evidence on Linkage Mechanisms	p. 146
NGOs, the State and Agriculture in Central America	p. 178
Conclusions: Rethinking Roles for NGOs and the State: Challenges of a New Agenda for Agricultural Development	p. 199
Annex 1: Case Studies Commissioned During the Research	p. 215
Annex 2: Case-Study Profiles	p. 218
Annex 3: Various Development Indicators: Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru	p. 261
References	p. 264
Index	p. 278
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