Browsing by Autor "Anthony Bebbington"

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Extraterritorial Investments, Environmental Crisis, and Collective Action in Latin America
(2014) Pablo Ospina Peralta; Anthony Bebbington; Patric Hollenstein; Ilana Nussbaum; Eduardo Ramı́rez
A growing number of extraterritorial private-sector actors, often in partnership with the state, are expanding the frontiers of extractive and primary export economies to new rural territories in Latin America. This paper analyzes the conditions that might drive meaningful efforts to address environmental problems in territories dominated by large, externally controlled natural resource-based activities. It studies three cases: salmon aquaculture in Chiloé (Chile), fruit growing in O’Higgins (Chile), and gas production in Tarija (Bolivia). We conclude that such efforts are unlikely to occur unless environmental problems directly threaten the short-term viability of the activities or social movements emerge to demand change.
Gas and Development: Rural Territorial Dynamics in Tarija, Bolivia
(Elsevier BV, 2015) Leonith Hinojosa; Anthony Bebbington; Guido Cortez; Juan Pablo Chumacero; Denise Humphreys Bebbington; Karl Hennermann
Technology and rural development strategies in a small farmer organization: lessons from Bolivia for rural policy and practice
(Wiley, 1996) Anthony Bebbington; Javier Quisbert; Germán Trujillo
At a time when public sector agricultural and rural development administration is changing quite profoundly, and when farmer organizations are being asked to assume more significant roles in rural and agricultural development, in-depth analysis of these organizations is an important input into policy and programmatic discussions. This article is an analysis of one type of small farmer organization, a regional economic organization called El Ceibo in Bolivia. It is one of the most successful cases of small farmer organization around technology generation and product transformation and marketing in the Andes. El Ceibo has been able to open new markets for its products, adapt product transformation techniques appropriate for these markets, and develop technology in support of its marketing strategy. Factors favouring Ceibo's success include long-term financial and technical support from external agencies, isolated location, and a cash/export crop specialization. The impacts of Ceibo are significant, although it is not clear how far Ceibo's activities foster a more broadly based regional development in the Alto Beni area. The article also compares the strategies and impacts of economically based organizations such as El Ceibo with those of more traditional, representative and politically oriented small farmer organizations.