scholarly journals Accounting for the Impact of Sustainable Agriculture: The Role of Community Based Organization and Local Governance Structures in Promoting Sustainable Agriculture

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terrence Thomas ◽  
Cihat Gunden ◽  
Befikadu Legesse
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Agriculture ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Governance Structures ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Organization ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Identification of Key Actors of Agricultural Community-Based Organization from Communication Perspective in Malaysia

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 66-72
Author(s):  
N.N.M. Shariff ◽  
A. Muhammad ◽  
Zety Sharizat Hamidi
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Agriculture ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Knowledge Network ◽  
Agricultural Practice ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Agricultural Knowledge ◽  
Current State ◽  
Agricultural Community ◽  
Community Based Organization

This paper was part of a larger study which focuses on communication aspect of sustainable agriculture. To date, most of communication issues highlight role of extension officer rather than CBOs or the farmers meaning from top to bottom approach. It is realized that the flows of communication and the exchanges between different actors are extremely significant especially to understand the current state of agriculture and to facilitate the learning process. This underscores the need for dialogues and interactions between different actors and networks. Hence, this research will focus on CBOs because of the changing focus from extension officers to CBOs also changes the agricultural perspective. The purpose of this paper is to identify key actors that involved in an agricultural community-based organization (CBO). By identifying key actors, we can understand: 1) characteristic of a CBO; and 2) dissemination of agricultural knowledge – network. Therefore, a more sustainable agricultural practice can be embraced by many especially by conventional farmers.

Crossing the Digital Divide in a Women's Community ICT Centre

2008 ◽  
pp. 904-910
Author(s):  
Clem Herman
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Shared Vision ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Strategic Plans ◽  
Underrepresentation Of Women ◽  
The Impact

This article examines the role of community-based training initiatives in enabling women to cross the so-called digital divide and become confident users of ICTs. Drawing on a case study of the Women’s Electronic Village Hall (WEVH) in Manchester, United Kingdom, one of the first such initiatives in Europe offering both skills training and Internet access to women, the article will illustrate the impact that community-based initiatives can have in challenging and changing prevailing gendered attitudes toward technology. Gendered constructions of technology in dominant discourse suggest that women must also cross an internal digital divide, involving a change in attitude and self–identification, before they can see themselves as technically competent. Learning about technology is intimately linked to learning about gender, and the performance of skills and tasks that are culturally identified as masculine can be an empowering step for women, successfully challenging preconceived gendered relationships with technology. The WEVH occupied a unique position, acting as a model for other women’s ICT initiatives and influencing the development and proliferation of other community-based ICT access projects. There were two main motivating forces behind its setting up in 1992. The first was a shared vision of the potential for ICTs to be used as a tool to combat social exclusion. The second was a feminist commitment to redressing the inequalities and underrepresentation of women in computing. Both these perspectives formed an important backdrop to the growth and development of the organisation and have continued to inform its strategic plans.

Crossing the Digital Divide in a Women's Community ICT Centre

2008 ◽  
pp. 2151-2158
Author(s):  
Clem Herman
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Shared Vision ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Strategic Plans ◽  
Underrepresentation Of Women ◽  
The Impact

This article examines the role of community-based training initiatives in enabling women to cross the so-called digital divide and become confident users of ICTs. Drawing on a case study of the Women’s Electronic Village Hall (WEVH) in Manchester, United Kingdom, one of the first such initiatives in Europe offering both skills training and Internet access to women, the article will illustrate the impact that community-based initiatives can have in challenging and changing prevailing gendered attitudes toward technology. Gendered constructions of technology in dominant discourse suggest that women must also cross an internal digital divide, involving a change in attitude and self–identification, before they can see themselves as technically competent. Learning about technology is intimately linked to learning about gender, and the performance of skills and tasks that are culturally identified as masculine can be an empowering step for women, successfully challenging preconceived gendered relationships with technology. The WEVH occupied a unique position, acting as a model for other women’s ICT initiatives and influencing the development and proliferation of other community-based ICT access projects. There were two main motivating forces behind its setting up in 1992. The first was a shared vision of the potential for ICTs to be used as a tool to combat social exclusion. The second was a feminist commitment to redressing the inequalities and underrepresentation of women in computing. Both these perspectives formed an important backdrop to the growth and development of the organisation and have continued to inform its strategic plans.

scholarly journals Community-Based Governance and Sustainability in the Paraguayan Pantanal

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (19) ◽  
pp. 5158
Author(s):  
Luca Eufemia ◽  
Izabela Schlindwein ◽  
Michelle Bonatti ◽  
Sabeth Tara Bayer ◽  
Stefan Sieber
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resource ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Environmental Conflicts ◽  
Self Organized ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Governance Model ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Organizational Principles

The megadiverse biome of the Paraguayan Pantanal is in danger due to the expansion of cattle ranching and agricultural frontiers that threaten not only the fragile equilibrium of natural resources, but also that of local governance and cultural identities. As a consequence, weak governance stresses the relations between natural resource-dependent communities, generating socio-environmental conflicts. This perception study seeks to find community-based governance models for sustainability in the context of Paraguayan wetlands. According to the organizational principles of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM), we applied qualitative approaches with the use of the Governance Analytical Framework (GAF) to identify problems and social norms. Our findings suggest that the Yshiro indigenous self-organized group (Unión de las Comunidades Indígenas de la Nación Yshiro (UCINY)) can be considered as a model for community-based governance. Besides, we discovered that this specific governance model is highly threatened by the impact of the national neo-extractive economy.

The Role of Community-Based Organization in Emergency Management in Rural Korea

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyoo-Man Ha
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Voluntary Organization ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Current Role ◽  
Local Schools ◽  
Community Based Organization ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Real Picture

The purpose of this paper is to suggest strengthening of the current role of community-based organization (CBO) in rural Korea, such as its all-events approach, by adopting the guerilla approach for the ultimate goal of effective local emergency management. In so doing, the paper first analyzes the real picture of CBO’s all-events approach and the alternatives available to CBO’s guerilla approach via four components: (1) local government, (2) local schools, (3) neighboring industry, and (4) local residents. The major tenet of this paper is that CBO should focus more, like a guerilla or an irregular soldier, on managing local emergency, besides all other events in rural Korea, with the support of the four components. Keywords: community-based organization • voluntary organization • emergency management • local Korea

scholarly journals Beyond the “Wild Tribes”

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-109
Author(s):  
Sophia Rose Shafi
Keyword(s):  
Local Governance ◽  
Bad News ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
And Migration

We have come to expect nothing but bad news about Afghanistan, nothingbut negative prognoses of that troubled state from policymakers, pundits, andjournalists. Only rarely do we hear what scholars of Afghan studies have tosay. In Beyond the “Wild Tribes”: Understanding Modern Afghanistan andIts Diaspora, the country and its people are presented in a far more complicatedfashion than the usual this-place-is-doomed mantra. Contributions includea review and critique of research methodologies in Afghanistan and thediaspora, the role of gender in community-based justice, models of nationaland local governance, the refugee warrior, and migration. There is much tolike about this book, and even those knowledgeable about the complex problemsplaguing the fledgling state will learn something ...

scholarly journals Nepantlera Pedagogy in an Immigrant Youth Theater Project: The Role of a Hmong Educator in Facilitating the Exploration of Culture and Identity

2021 ◽  
pp. 016146812110519
Author(s):  
Bic Ngo ◽  
Diana Chandara
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Immigrant Youth ◽  
Boundary Crossing ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Youth Theater ◽  
Community Based Organization ◽  
Hmong American

Background/Context: Community-based youth theater programs afford youth opportunities to explore and “author” new identities by “performing writing.” Yet, we know much less about the ways in which immigrant youth are exploring struggles and changes within their families and ethnic community. We particularly lack research about the roles of immigrant adult educators in youth programs, and the significance to the pedagogical process of their experiences, being, and modes of interacting with young people who share with them a common ethnicity. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study: The purpose of the study is to explore the role of a community-based Hmong immigrant educator as a “nepantlera,” or boundary-crossing “guide” in Hmong youth’s negotiation of culture and identity. It is guided by three questions: (1) How does nepantlera pedagogy move beyond self–other dichotomies? (2) How does nepantlera pedagogy facilitate rewriting the self to construct new visions of ethnic identity? and (3) How does nepantlera pedagogy entail risking the personal? Setting: The research setting was a Hmong community-based arts organization in an urban center in the Midwestern United States. Population/Participants/Subjects: Three 1.5-generation Hmong American adult staff of a community-based organization, one Korean American teaching artist from a local theater company, and 11 second-generation Hmong American adolescents participated in the study. Research Design: The study draws from a critical ethnographic investigation of the culturally relevant practices of a youth theater project within a Hmong coethnic organization. Data Collection and Analysis: Ethnographic data collection occurred over the 4-month program cycle of the theater project. Data sources include field notes from participant observations, semi-structured interviews, audio and video recordings of the activities, work products, and documents about the program and organization. The data were analyzed with thematic analysis techniques. Findings/Results: The findings suggest that the nepantlera pedagogy of the Hmong immigrant educator fostered opportunities for Hmong youth to (1) disrupt binaries between first-generation and second-generation immigrants by exploring not only differences but also commonalities; (2) imagine new ethnic selves by exploring and rewriting a Hmong edict against same-last-name relationships; and (3) experience the vulnerability of their Hmong educator through disclosure about his personal life. Conclusions/Recommendations: The nepantlera pedagogy of an immigrant educator within a coethnic community-based organization brings a perspective from the nepantla, or “in-between,” of culture and identity that provides immigrant youth with a deeper level of cultural knowledge and connectedness to navigate their multiple worlds.

scholarly journals Expanding entrepreneurship opportunities through local governance: the case of Barbados

2015 ◽  
pp. 137-149
Author(s):  
Paul Pounder
Keyword(s):  
Local Governance ◽  
Community Level ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Governance Structures ◽  
Complex Issue ◽  
Government Institutions ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Relationship

This paper looks at the government and local governance structures of Barbados, arguing that local governance should be leveraged to expand entrepreneurship opportunities at the community level. It examines the links between local governance and entrepreneurship, and proposes a framework aimed at strengthening the relationship between Barbados’ newly formed constituency councils and its government institutions supporting entrepreneurship. The research concludes that there are many inefficiencies in the interaction between government agencies and constituency councils, which the proposed framework is a first step toward remedying.  The research suggests that local governance is a complex issue worldwide. More specifically in Barbados, even though the role of the constituency councils is defined, there are weak formal arrangements which undermine the processes and activities to support community entrepreneurship. The proposed framework highlighted in the research is a first step in formalising a way forward for entrepreneurship in the community. 

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