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More than 3.4 billion people live in the countryside of developing countries. The vast majority of these women and men rely, to a lesser or great extent, on small-scale farming...
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More than 3.4 billion people live in the countryside of developing countries. The vast majority of these women and men rely, to a lesser or great extent, on small-scale farming as the basis of their livelihood. By some counts 70 per cent of the world's food is grown by small-scale peasant farmers – but at the same time some 70 per cent of the world's poor live in the world's rural areas. So the world's food is grown by the world's poorest people. If global citizens want to address human inequality we have to start by understanding how the world's largely ignored peasant farmers have become the epicenter of global poverty. After all, if we want the world to become a better place a good place to start would be among the lives of the world's forgotten peoples that provide the bulk of humanity with their food.
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11 JAN 2021 · The origins, objectives and accomplishments of the world's largest social movement, the global peasant organization La Via Campesina.
11 JAN 2021 · Two important contemporary peasant movements are discussed.
11 JAN 2021 · In the 20th century a large number of peasant revolutions changed the shape of the world. What were the common factors behind these revolutions?
11 JAN 2021 · How small-scale peasant farmers have used and continue to use the 'weapons of the weak' to continually if quietly challenge the more powerful.
11 JAN 2021 · The capacity of rural microfinance to address the needs of the rural poor is assessed.
11 JAN 2021 · The principles and operations of rural microfinance in developing countries are discussed.
11 JAN 2021 · What kinds of interventions were undertaken by governments between the 1950s and 1980s to create rural financial systems in developing countries?
11 JAN 2021 · The basic mechanics of orthodox financial institutions – banks - are described.
11 JAN 2021 · Can anything definitive be said about the impact of genetically modified organisms on human health?
11 JAN 2021 · How the introduction of genetically modified organisms has produced biological reactions within nature that undermine any benefits from genetically modified organisms.
More than 3.4 billion people live in the countryside of developing countries. The vast majority of these women and men rely, to a lesser or great extent, on small-scale farming...
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More than 3.4 billion people live in the countryside of developing countries. The vast majority of these women and men rely, to a lesser or great extent, on small-scale farming as the basis of their livelihood. By some counts 70 per cent of the world's food is grown by small-scale peasant farmers – but at the same time some 70 per cent of the world's poor live in the world's rural areas. So the world's food is grown by the world's poorest people. If global citizens want to address human inequality we have to start by understanding how the world's largely ignored peasant farmers have become the epicenter of global poverty. After all, if we want the world to become a better place a good place to start would be among the lives of the world's forgotten peoples that provide the bulk of humanity with their food.
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