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The International context of rural poverty in the Third World : issues for research and action by grassroots organizations and legal activists / edited by David Dembo ... [et al.].
- Title
- The International context of rural poverty in the Third World : issues for research and action by grassroots organizations and legal activists / edited by David Dembo ... [et al.].
- Publication
- New York, NY : Council on International and Public Affairs, 1986.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | HC79.P6 I57x 1986 | Off-site |
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- Description
- viii, 267 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Critical studies of rural development approaches which engender rural area impoverishment, and of legal aspects which allow poverty- stricken rural workers to defend their economic and social rights in developing countries - analyses the dominance of agribusiness and plantation agriculture by multinational enterprises, social implications of new agricultural technologys, partic. Biotechnology, etc.; examines the role of international organizations in supporting harmful development policies; discusses legal (incl. Human rights) resources to combat impoverishment.
- Series Statement
- Series on law, social action, and rural poverty ; 1
- Uniform Title
- Series on law, social action, and rural poverty 1.
- Subject
- Note
- "International Center for Law in Development."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Transnational agribusiness and plantation agriculture : the Philippine experience / Cesar Espiritu -- Building export markets for the first world through "development" : the case of Operation Flood in India / Claude Alvares.
- ISBN
- 0936876409
- OCLC
- 13520071
- SCSB-10407578
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library