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Assessment of the growth in social groups for sustainable agriculture and land management

Global Sustainability, Volume 32020 , e23

Year of publication 2020

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 16 p.

Author Pretty, J., Attwood, S., Bawden, R., Van den Berg, H., Bharucha, Z., Dixon, J., . . . Yang, P.

Publisher Cambridge University Press ;

Product type Article

Synopsis (short abstract) Until the past half-century, all agriculture and land management was framed by local institutions strong in social capital. But neoliberal forms of development came to undermine existing structures, thus reducing sustainability and equity. The past 20 years, though, have seen the deliberate establishment of more than 8 million new social groups across the world. This restructuring and growth of rural social capital within specific territories is leading to increased productivity of agricultural and land management systems, with particular benefits for those previously excluded. Further growth would occur with more national and regional policy support.

Open Access Article. This article is academically peer-reviewed and published externally. This article is published in Global Sustainability Volume 3, 2020, e23, pages 1–16

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Pretty, J., Attwood, S., Bawden, R., Van den Berg, H., Bharucha, Z., Dixon, J., . . . Yang, P. (2020). Assessment of the growth in social groups for sustainable agriculture and land management. Global Sustainability, 3, E23. doi:10.1017/sus.2020.19

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