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Globalization and Rural Development: Insights from a Grassroots Engagement with International Trade

International Journal of Cooperative Studies

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Title Globalization and Rural Development: Insights from a Grassroots Engagement with International Trade
 
Creator Irwin, Sean; University of Victoria, Canada
Ramsey, Doug; Brandon University, Canada
 
Subject rural development, rural agricultural cooperatives
rural development; international trade; globalization; fairtrade; grassroots; Belize
 
Description This paper presents a place-based case of some of the social and economic effects that globalization, and specifically international trade, can have on rural development.   Using a historical description and semi-structured interviews, it focuses on a member led organic and fair-trade organization in Southern Belize.  Our understanding of how globalization can affect rural people in the global South, specifically how opportunities can be exploited and pitfalls avoided, is lacking.  This paper argues that the creation of a grassroots co-operative structure contributed to the development of a stable income generating strategy and reduced vulnerability to the risks involved in international trade for the members of the organization.
 
Publisher World Scholars
 
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Date 2014-04-27
 
Type Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://wscholars.com/index.php/ijcs/article/view/461
10.11634/216826311403461
 
Source International Journal of Cooperative Studies; Vol 3, No 1 (2014); 1-12
 
Language en
 
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