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Cooperatives as Sustainable Livelihood Strategies in Rural Mexico
Authors:ROBIN KING  MARINA A ADLER  MARGARET GRIEVES
Institution:University of Maryland, USA
Abstract:The sustainable livelihoods perspective and cooperative movement are rooted in frameworks that value social justice in the form of participatory democracy, distributional equity, and solidarity. Unlike studies of cooperatives that focus mainly on economic efficiency and productivity, we argue that this socio‐political dimension of the cooperative projects is crucial for understanding their potential as sustainable livelihoods. This exploratory research examines the experiences of two rural Mexican communities in Guanajuato and Oaxaca, which formed cooperatives as alternative livelihood strategies. Our results show that each community used similar grassroots political culture to develop cooperatives designed to meet local needs.
Keywords:alternative economies  community  cooperatives  Mexico  neoliberalism  sustainable livelihoods
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