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Rural Paradox; The agricultural land trust looks tailor-made for CED. But is it?
(Making Waves, 2006)
In the agricultural land trust, rural Canada has at hand a useful structure for defending small-scale farming from industrial agriculture. But trusts will not get to square one until farmers themselves start to question ...
Community-controlled economic development as a strategic vision for the sustainable agriculture movement
(Making Waves, 2000)
If industrial agriculture is ever to be dislodged, its opponents must achieve a strategic vision that encompasses a vast range of issues. Labour practices, pesticide reduction, farmland protection, nutrition, and consumer ...
New Generation Co-Operatives : Part of a Revitalization Strategy for Rural Communities
(Making Waves, 2001)
Their exclusiveness puts them at odds with some co-operators and CED activists New Generation Co-operatives are nevertheless proving an effective instrument of rural revitalization, helping producers move up the value chain ...
Transformed By Community Economic Development--Southwest Montréal Now Has A Future As Well As A Past
(Making Waves, 2004)
It's taken well on 20 years, but the decline of Montreal's old southwest quarter has been halted. A community-driven strategy, unprecedented in Canada for its scale and comprehensiveness, has turned five rundown neighbourhoods ...
An Inch Wide & A Mile Deep: Southern’s targeted approach to rural revitalization
(Making Waves, 2006)
Having worked for 10 years in the rural outback of Mississippi with a relatively rich array of development finance tools at their disposal, Southern Development Bancorporation had marginal success to point to. Instead of ...
The Ecology Of Success: The Problem Of Scaling Up What Works In CED
(Making Waves, 2000)
This is the keystone article of this volume, with respect to the challenge of scaling up innovations achieving demonstrable results. Lizbeth Schorr, one of America’s foremost researchers on the subject, distills the lessons ...
The Oregon Benchmarks: Oregonians Are Getting Results From This Approach To Governance. Can We Too?
(Making Waves, 2001)
When the ends are in sight - and measurable - the means are less divisive. Thanks to a focus on specific outcomes for policy, Oregon is building a culture of collaboration and learning between sectors, regions, and interest ...
The Good News from Manitoba: How one provincial government has evolved into a leader in CED policy & programming
(Making Waves, 2004)
Garry Loewen explains how Manitoba has evolved into a leader in CED policy and programming. The party in power is one key factor. Another has been the growth over the years of a local "CED community" from which that ...
Municipal Involvement In Social Enterprise: The Seattle Experience
(Making Waves, 2001)
Seattle, Washington sets a standard for investment in entrepreneurial solutions in the non-profit sector. They have dedicated money and staff for non-profit capacity building because they believe there will be a return on ...
MOTEL: Designing a virtual geo-tagging framework for use in higher education
(2007-10-05)
Higher Education students are highly mobile; they move between learning venues such as lecture halls, the field, labs, home, and excursions. In order to understand how students used technology to support them in their ...