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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 ...
Performance Measurement, Development Indicators and Aboriginal Economic Development
(Performance Measurement, Development Indicators and Aboriginal Economic Development, 2002)
This report defines the language of outcomes, indicators, and performance measures and then summarizes a review of applications of several strategies and tools for tracking progress that have been developed since the late ...
Growth With Equity: Research Reports Best Practice In The USA
(Making Waves, 2000)
Excerpts from "From the Bottom Up: Toward a Strategy for Income and Employment Generation Among the Disadvantaged" (Aspen Institute, 1993) came out about the same time as people in Canada were beginning to organize around ...
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 ...
Alternatives For Public Sector Reform: Co-operatives & the ASD Debate
(Making Waves, 2002)
Local, non-governmental contractors may well outperform the bureaucrats in service delivery, assuming communities have social capital adequate to the job. What kind of business offers efficiency and accountability while ...
Public Institution or Public Nuisance? HRSDC, the community sector's increasingly dysfunctional "partner"
(Making Waves, 2004)
Human Resources & Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) went off the deep end in the years following the so-called "Billion Dollar Boondoggle" back in 2000-01. In response to perceived public pressure, the Ministry introduced ...