The recent phenomenon of large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) is associated with what has been described as a global agrarian transition. New forms exploitation and concentration have led to profound socio-environmental transformations rural production systems in Latin America, South-East Asia Sub Saharan Africa. Scholars pointed out that the expansion transnational investments often detriment...

Theories on the establishment and propagation of political movements through mobilization have emerged and evolved over the last half century. Among the major theoretical frameworks that have been advanced are resource mobilization theory, political process theory, and culture theory. However, despite these developments, relatively few methodological approaches have applied bottom-up computatio...

To this end, a social marketing agency was contracted to develop a comprehensive multimedia, multilevel communication strategy. Various communication materials were developed, including innovative marketing tools for private sector producers of low-cost sanitary rings and slabs to generate consumer demand. DPHE and UNICEF revamped their approach to social mobilization, including instituting the...

This paper analyzes the impact of changing political opportunities, and more particularly of changes in the composition of government, on the levels, political leaning and forms of protest mobilization. The literature provides us with contradictory expectations as to these questions, some stressing openess of the political system, some closure, and some a combination of openness and closure as ...

2 Summary.-This special section brings together four of twelve studies conducted within a research program analyzing the relationships among social mobilization, governance and rural development in contemporary Latin America. The introduction gives an overview of the contemporary significance of social

At the moment, we are facing great expectations of having more effective social politics to combat poverty. Once the inefficiency of the assistance model of the 90’s was recognized, governments and third sector organizations developed many innovative projects. They opened new ways for effective interventions aimed to mobilization of the communities and the development of the social capital.

background: despite recent advances in mobilization techniques, a considerable portion of patients fail to mobilize sufficient number of cells for successful autologous stem cell transplantation. there are several studies available that have demonstrated enhanced mobilization of endothelial progenitor cells with atorvastatin. therefore, this prospective trial was conducted to evaluate the mobil...