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Corporations now go “to the ends of the earth” to extract natural resources like oil and diamonds from the earth at the same time that farmers, investors, and development experts try to expand the supply of food, sometimes through large land acquisitions in remote regions. These two processes of globalization interact in important ways. Cross-national analyses indicate that oil and mineral dependent...
Many sustainable development projects take place in rural communities experiencing economic decline and out-migration. What kind of sustainable development projects succeed in these economically troubled settings? To answer this question, I examine two sustainable development projects initiated by women in a portion of the Ecuadorian Amazon experiencing economic decline and out-migration. The first...
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