The growth of the organic agriculture (OA) sector in Uganda started in 1994 as a response to the threat of the Sahara Desert spreading southwards. To enhance the development of the sector, a national OA movement was established in 2001. The National Organic Agriculture Movement of Uganda (NOGAMU)...

This chapter applies Bourdieu's concept of social capital in examining women's participation in ecotourism entrepreneurship. The study focuses on ventures, such as restaurants, lodging and ecotourist guiding in the Catemaco-Montepío corridor, located in Veracruz, Mexico, and examines women's...

This chapter analyses the impact of rural road networks on: (i) employment or labour absorption; and (ii) household income or output in rural areas of Nigeria. It also articulates a framework for capacity building for sustainable rural development in Nigeria. In this framework, the main strategies...

This chapter describes how the large cruise corporations pay relatively little tax in the USA, yet still manage to be a major lobby group. Strategies used by the cruise industry to influence policies and decision makers include using the media and professional lobbyists, providing campaign...

This chapter discusses the role of communities in the development of rural tourism. Through a representative sample of more developed destination case studies in Europe and North America, the key indicators leading to successful community-based rural tourism are explored. These indicators include...

This chapter explains the system of swidden or shifting cultivation; its contribution to the cultural integrity, social capital and social security of shifting cultivators who are typically indigenous peoples; its environmental impacts compared to forestry harvesting and sedentary agriculture; its...

This research sought to examine whether conservation agriculture (CA) could play a role in the empowerment of women through agriculture. The results indicate that there are indeed clear positive impacts for women who practice CA, in terms of time and labour spent on agricultural endeavors, returns...

This chapter investigates the potential for tourism development to contribute to recovery strategies following earthquakes. It examines changes to livelihood assets in a rural community setting in Taiwan that had suffered a major earthquake in 1999 and subsequently sought to develop an ecotourism...

This chapter identifies the Community Capitals Framework (CCF) as a potential approach to analysing the impact of festivals and special events. To illustrate the application of this type of measurement to the impacts of festivals, a case study is reported that represents the impacts of seven...

This chapter examines the characteristics and features of the city region that prove to be salient to talented and creative workers. In short, it investigates why knowledge workers move, what makes them stay and how they engage to realize their creative interests. The chapter is particularly...