Agricultural cooperatives and producer organizations are institutional innovations which have the potential to reduce poverty and improve food security. This book presents a raft of international case studies, from developing and transition countries, to analyse the internal and external...

Local Action Groups (LAGs), which is a promising development approach underpinning the participation of all local actors (community-led rural development) as the main pre-condition for generating and sustaining economic development in rural regions, has gained prominence across the world....

Introduction -- Ch: 1 Reflection and Reconstruction of China’s Rural Land Shareholding System Reform based on several cases in Northwestern China -- Ch: 2 Rural Land Transfer in China: Reform and Legal Issues -- Ch: 3 Research, extension services and training as key drivers to agroforestry...