Consolidating the Commodity Chain: Organic farming and agribusiness in northern California
Development Report | Christina Getz, Daniel Buck and Julie Guthman | Jan 31, 1996
This study focuses on the northern California vegetable sector.
Development Reports
Land, Food and the Politics of Agrarian Reform in South Africa
Development Report | David Weiner and Richard Levin | Nov 1, 1995
Despite newly won political freedoms, approximately one-half of South Africa's 41 million people still live in deep poverty and at least seven million live in shacks.
A Bitter Pill: Structural adjustment in Costa Rica
Development Report | Alicia Korten | Jun 1, 1995
Under structural adjustment, export industries received support while corn, bean and rice farmers lost their government sponsored credit and price supports.
Brave New Third World? Strategies for survival in the global economy
Development Report | Walden Bello | Feb 1, 1989
The question for most third world countries is not how to attain common prosperity but how to arrest their descent into a common misery.
The Missing Piece in the Population Puzzle
Development Report | Frances Moore Lappé and Rachel Schurman | Sep 30, 1988
Unless we are honestly willing to confront the roots of people's powerlessness, we cannot hope to halt population growth in the future.
South Africa: A new US policy for the 1990s
Development Report | Kevin Danaher | Apr 1, 1988
U.S. policy in South Africa has been contradictory--denouncing apartheid while blocking actions aimed at weakening apartheid.
US-Sponsored Low Intensity Conflict in the Philippines
Development Report | Walden Bello | Dec 1, 1987
Recent dramatic events in the Philippines have underlined the volatile, revolutionary process that is underway in the country.
Help or Hindrance? United States Economic Aid in Central America
Development Report | Kevin Danaher, Medea Benjamin and Phillip Berryman | Sep 1, 1987
During the 1980s, U.S. aid to Central America has skyrocketed, yet the crisis persists.
Food Self-Sufficiency in North Korea
Development Report | David Barkin | Jan 1, 1986
The North Koreans started to reorganize agriculture immediately after the 1953 Korean armistice to respond to the productive demands created by their policy of self-reliance.
Agrarian Reform in El Salvador: An evaluation
Development Report | Martin Diskin | Jan 1, 1985
The "most sweeping land reform in Latin American history" is in reality an inadequate measure to redress the most serious problem facing El Salvador.
Land Reform: Is it the answer? A Venezuelan peasant speaks
Development Report | Frances Moore Lappé and Hannes Lorenzen | Feb 1, 1981
Land reform means the redistribution of control over land and greater equity.
Agrarian Reform and Counter-Reform in Chile
Development Report | Joseph Collins | Jan 1, 1979
Five years have passed since the overthrew of President Salvador Allende. This paper asks, What have been the policies of the military junta in the Chilean countryside?
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