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Development, Civil Society and Faith-Based Organizations: Bridging the Sacred and the Secular edited by Gerard Clarke and Michael Jennings
This article seeks to understand the influence of religion/spirituality on services provided and on the governance of faith-based civil society organizations during the Covid-19 pandemic. 22 coordinators of 17 Brazilian organizations that work in the governance of children's rights at the local level are interviewed. The results point to organizational expressions of religiosity, added services, and developed communication and networking capabilities. The research highlights the religion/spirituality dimension in network governance between different actors and the community, characterized by interdependence and intersectionality, and discusses contradictory factors that increase or decrease governance capacity.
It is argued that with the spread of neoliberal policies throughout Latin America in recent years, the era of major agrarian reforms that started with the Mexican revolution at the beginning of the twentienth century has come to a close on the continent. It is thus opportune to attempt a general overview of the causes and consequences of the agrarian reforms which were implemented in most countries of the region. The reforms are evaluated in terms of their impact on agricultural production, income distribution, employment, poverty and gender relations as well as from a social and political perspective. Governments have often underestimated the complexities of transforming the land tenure structure and misjudged the multifarious dynamic processes set in motion by the agrarian reforms, which frequently had unexpected and unintended consequences. Agrarian reforms often provoked dramatic counterreforms and neo-reforms following the social and political struggles they unleashed. Thus the outcome of Latin America's agrarian reforms has been varied and has given rise to a more complex and fluid agrarian system. While initially some agrarian reforms were intended for the benefit of the peasantry, the predominant outcome has favoured the development of capitalist farming. The recent shift to neoliberal economic policies as well as land policies has given an additional impetus to capitalist farming while further marginalizing peasant farming.
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