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Partnership, empowerment and local development

2009; UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DOM BOSCO; Volume: 10; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/s1518-70122009000200002

1984-042X

Mário Vasconcellos Sobrinho, Ana María de Albuquerque Vasconcellos,

Rural Development and Agriculture

This paper tries to understand how partnership between local organisations (associations, cooperatives, worker's unions and others) and Government affects local development. It explores to what extent partnership is an effective strategy for local development in areas of historical conflict between local Government and the local organisations that defend the interests of family-based, small-scale rural producers. Particularly, this paper concentrates on debate of partnership as a mechanism of power sharing and empowerment of the people that historically have been excluded from the development process. Empirically, the paper is based on data collected in the municípios of Ourém and Igarapé-Miri, Northeast of Para State, Amazonia, Brazil.