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New Rural Poverty: The Tangled Web of Environmental Protection and Economic Aid in Southern Mexico.
- Source :
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Journal of Poverty . 2004, Vol. 8 Issue 4, p97-117. 21p. - Publication Year :
- 2004
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Abstract
- Scholars, especially those located in Latin America, argue for a new rurality, one that entails changed rural-urban relations and decreasing reliance by rural residents on small-scale farming. Based on an examination of the impacts of three subsidy programs aimed at residents living near Mexico's Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, I suggest these changes reinforce a continued rural poverty. The programs include a series of "conservation-development" initiatives whose architects hoped would decrease the pressure slash-and-bum farmers placed on area forests. In addition, residents of this area participated in agricultural and school subsidies. I compare the relative impact of all these programs on household incomes and consider both the opportunities for social capital these programs represented and their role in the purported "new rurality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *RURAL poor
*POVERTY
*RURAL population
*INCOME
*EDUCATION
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10875549
- Volume :
- 8
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Poverty
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 16097844
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1300/J134v08n04_06