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Get inspired by the global South : peasant-led ecodevelopment strategies in Nicaragua

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  • Renaud Metereau

    (CREG - Centre de recherche en économie de Grenoble - UPMF - Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2)

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Get inspired by the global South: Peasant-led ecodevelopment strategies in Nicaragua. R. Metereau * Summary The current context gives forces to alternative development pathways. Some still have to be invented; others just have to be reminded. The ecodevelopment heuristic framework draws some characteristics of self-reliant, culturally adapted and environmentally sustainable approaches of development. The Peasant-led cooperative movement in Nicaragua, organized in a multi-scale network, struggles for food sovereignty and poverty alleviation. In this struggle, peasant cooperative networks have been building their own alternative development pathways. This paper seeks to highlight the existence of an ecodevelopment project beyond the peasant-led cooperative movement. Following a qualitative data analysis, motivations for cooperation and collective action are identified. The resulting motivation panel demonstrate the presence of political and socio-ecological aims. Their structural significance for the cooperative movement is thus set out.

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  • Renaud Metereau, 2015. "Get inspired by the global South : peasant-led ecodevelopment strategies in Nicaragua," Post-Print halshs-01162826, HAL.
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