- Title Pages
- Figures
- Tables
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Rise and Impact of National and Transnational Rural Social Movements in Latin America
-
1 La Vía Campesina: Globalizing Peasants -
2 Agrarian Reform and Food Sovereignty: An Alternative Model for the Rural World -
3 For Life, Land, Territory, and the Sovereignty of our People: The Latin American Coordinator of Rural Organizations -
4 The Landless Rural Workers’ Movement and the Struggle for Social Justice in Brazil -
5 Agrarian Reform as a Precondition for Development: The View of Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers’ Movement -
6 Toward a Real Agrarian Reform in Bolivia: The Perspective of the Landless Movement -
7: The Mobilization of Colombian Ethnic Minorities -
8: Water for Life, Not for Death: The Brazilian Social Movement of People Affected by Dams -
9 The Impact of Mining on Peruvian Peasant Communities: The Role of CONACAMI -
10 When Social Movement Proposals Become Policy: Experiments in Sustainable Development in the Brazilian Amazon -
11 Biodiversity and Tourism as Development Alternatives for Indigenous Peoples -
12 Women Cooperative Members in Nicaragua: The Struggle for Autonomy -
13 The Peasant Women’s Movement in Bolivia: “Bartolina Sisa” and COCAMTROP -
14 Reflections on ICTs, Telecenters, and Social Movements -
15 Exit Followed by Voice: Mapping Mexico’s Emerging Migrant Civil Society -
16 Women and Social Movements in Transborder Communities: Mexico and the United States -
17 Transnational Social Movements Linking North and South: The Struggle for Fair Trade - Contributors
- Index
Women Cooperative Members in Nicaragua: The Struggle for Autonomy
Women Cooperative Members in Nicaragua: The Struggle for Autonomy
- Chapter:
- (p.221) 12 Women Cooperative Members in Nicaragua: The Struggle for Autonomy
- Source:
- Rural Social Movements in Latin America
- Author(s):
Martha Heriberta Valle
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
This chapter discusses a summary of the highlights of thirty years of organizing rural women, which culminates in the organization of FEMUPROCAN. It turns to the objectives and current activities of the organization of rural women in Nicaragua and their view of the main problems that affect rural Nicaragua.
Keywords: cooperative members, rural women, FEMUPROCAN, Nicaragua, rural Nicaragua
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- Title Pages
- Figures
- Tables
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Rise and Impact of National and Transnational Rural Social Movements in Latin America
-
1 La Vía Campesina: Globalizing Peasants -
2 Agrarian Reform and Food Sovereignty: An Alternative Model for the Rural World -
3 For Life, Land, Territory, and the Sovereignty of our People: The Latin American Coordinator of Rural Organizations -
4 The Landless Rural Workers’ Movement and the Struggle for Social Justice in Brazil -
5 Agrarian Reform as a Precondition for Development: The View of Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers’ Movement -
6 Toward a Real Agrarian Reform in Bolivia: The Perspective of the Landless Movement -
7: The Mobilization of Colombian Ethnic Minorities -
8: Water for Life, Not for Death: The Brazilian Social Movement of People Affected by Dams -
9 The Impact of Mining on Peruvian Peasant Communities: The Role of CONACAMI -
10 When Social Movement Proposals Become Policy: Experiments in Sustainable Development in the Brazilian Amazon -
11 Biodiversity and Tourism as Development Alternatives for Indigenous Peoples -
12 Women Cooperative Members in Nicaragua: The Struggle for Autonomy -
13 The Peasant Women’s Movement in Bolivia: “Bartolina Sisa” and COCAMTROP -
14 Reflections on ICTs, Telecenters, and Social Movements -
15 Exit Followed by Voice: Mapping Mexico’s Emerging Migrant Civil Society -
16 Women and Social Movements in Transborder Communities: Mexico and the United States -
17 Transnational Social Movements Linking North and South: The Struggle for Fair Trade - Contributors
- Index
