Globalizing Rural Development: Competing Paradigms and Emerging Realities

Ever since rural development emerged as an independent field of inquiry in the 1950s, it has been subjected to many changes in emphasis and ideology. These changing perspectives have resulted in shifts in policies and programmes and have influenced the international discourse on rural development. The recently initiated process of globalisation has brought in its wake yet more rethinking on the most appropriate approach to rural development. Conceived against this background, this volume examines the impact of the changing paradigm of rural development on poverty alleviation, equity, gender, food security, employment and sustainability. The volume′s major concern is: Can the goals of rural development be achieved in a globalised world? The central argument is that the new paradigm of rural development reflects the core-periphery dichotomy, in which the core imposes on the periphery—in a top down approach—in all major interventions. As a result, maintain the contributors, the new paradigm is ridden with limitations in addressing the highly differentiated needs and contexts of rural development both in developing and developed countries. Divided into four sections including the introduction, the volume -examines the inherently contradictory relationship between the new development paradigm and the goals of rural development; -studies the new role of the state and state-led interventions in the context of globalisation, and the role and potential of NGOs in rural development; - highlights the rural livelihood framework and the impact of endogenous efforts at rural development in various European and Asian countries; and, -presents participatory methods for addressing problems like food security, women′s empowerment, and poverty alleviation.

Table of Contents:
Preface PART ONE: GLOBALIZATION: WHITHER RURAL DEVELOPMENT An Introduction - M C Behera PART TWO: GLOBALIZATION, THE STATE AND NGOS The State and the Rural Development - Robert Chambers Ideologies and an Agenda for the 1990s State Restructuring and Rural Development in South Africa - Maano Ramutsindela Rural Development in the Era of Globalization - Farida Akhter Fragmented Realities Rural Development Issues in Nigeria in the Era of Globalization - S Tunji Titilola and Femi Ogundele An Overview Enwrapped by Thai Development - Nathan Porath The Sedentarization Process of a Hunting and Gathering People of South Thailand Nongovernmental Organizations in Rural Development - Damodar Suar, Laxmi Bilash Hota and Himadri Sinha The NGO Debate in ′Development′ - Mokbul Morshed Ahmad A Review PART THREE: SUSTAINABILITY AND ENDOGENOUS RURAL DEVELOPMENT: CONCEPTS AND STRATEGIES Sustainable Livelihood and Rural Development in South Asia - Binayak Rajbhandari Issues, Concerns and General Implications Systems of Local Self-Administration after Agricultural Transformation - Lutz Laschewski Experiences of a Local Resource Management Project in East Germany Repertoires and Strategies in European (Neo-)Endogenous Rural Development - Christopher Ray LEADER, a New Social Order and the Central- and East-European Countries - Imre Kov[ac]ach Indigenous Self-Development in Practice - Christian Erni Tackling Crisis in Swidden Farming among the Buhid of Mindoro, Philippines PART FOUR: PARTICIPATION, GENDER, POVERTY AND FOOD SECURITY: POLICY ISSUES Engendering Participatory Development in the Analysis of Household Food Security - Eliud Wandabwa Wakwabubi Small-Scale Farmers in the Vihiga District of Kenya Critically Evaluating Rural Women′s Participation and Empowerment - June Lennie An Interdisciplinary Feminist Framework for Research and Analysis Level of Empowerment of Rural Women - Pradip K Bhowmick Lessons from the Field Social Forestry, Poverty Reduction and Rural Development in Bangladesh - Niaz Ahmed Khan A Sociological Exploration Poverty Alleviation Programmes in Rural India - Sibranjan Misra A Critical Assessment Conclusion Index

Review :
The book…is perhaps the first independent analytical account of changing rural development paradigms and emerging realities in the wake of process of globalisation.