This study aims to contribute knowledge about the potentials and limitations of local participation in the search for sustainable development. It shows the local actors as they really are, with limitations, opportunism, errors and coordination problems, but also shows their contributions and commitment to the land in which they were born.

This study aims to contribute knowledge about the potentials and limitations of local participation in the search for sustainable development. It shows the local actors as they really are, with limitations, opportunism, errors and coordination problems, but also shows their contributions and commitment to the land in which they were born.

This study aims to contribute knowledge about the potentials and limitations of local participation in the search for sustainable development. It shows the local actors as they really are, with limitations, opportunism, errors and coordination problems, but also shows their contributions and commitment to the land in which they were born.

This study aims to contribute knowledge about the potentials and limitations of local participation in the search for sustainable development. It shows the local actors as they really are, with limitations, opportunism, errors and coordination problems, but also shows their contributions and commitment to the land in which they were born.

The national furniture market is a sector with major potential given the existence of extensive raw material, a good small-scale manufacturing tradition, relatively low labor costs and the concentration of a large number of small and micro-businesses in certain cities of the country.

The anthropological-social analysis of “the impact of the maquila* on an agricultural zone of Nicaragua” was done through case studies. The Taiwanese maquila plant Presitex, located in Sébaco, Matagalpa, was chosen for this purpose, seeking communities throughout that region in which the unemployment problem and the search for work were significant.

This study attempts to identify and quantify the productive potential that resides in the different types of producers and agrarian zones, formulating policy proposals that clearly define which zones to prioritize, which producer sub-sectors to focus on and with which programs.

 This investigation hopes to discover why and how diverse types of farmers and other social actors manage the forest patches on their properties, and understand the implications of their management practices for conserving forest diversity in a small natural reserve in northwestern Nicaragua.

A reflection on the relationship between knowledge and development alternatives forces more careful thinking about the relationship between civil society and development, among knowledge, politics and the public sphere, and about the constitution of civil society itself.

The issue of market access has become relevant in the context of the signing of Free Trade Agreements, which bring with them both threats and opportunities.

Crisis, reforesting and conservationism The central thesis of this research is that forest resources are only renewed when the concrete benefits the trees provide motivate diverse social sectors to undertake long-term investments and collaborate in reproducing the resource.

Focusing on the issue of local rural development, this book introduces a vision of the problems and opportunities of rural finances, making use of two currents of thinking on development: the institutional approach to development and theories about micro-financing institutions. This publication reflects the Institute’s option to accompany its innovative development actions with a systematic research process.

The text is made up of three parts: the rural sector seen from a horizontal perspective, centered on agriculture and rural poverty; a second part analyzed by crossing agro-industry and commercialization from a vertical perspective; and a third part taken from rural financial intermediation that crosses the first two parts, a study with an institutional perspective.

This report presents the results of a study on micro-credit institutions with a gender approach. The objective has been to analyze the diverse experiences of the selected institutions with respect to their integration of a gender perspective in their work: their policies, methodology, strategies, products and impact.