Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Studies, North Carolina State University
Based on my research with Mexican smallholding farmers as they become swept into various global flows, I engage topics of environmental conservation, industrial agriculture, economic development initiatives, and international migration. I have a twenty-five year commitment to a research site in southern Mexico, where I have carried out participant-observation, household surveys, and other research. When thinking about globalization, I ask myself what the perspective of rural people might reveal that is lost in larger conversations.
Mexican anti-poverty program targeting poor women may help men most, study finds
Jul 24, 2018 17:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
Economic empowerment programs that target women may have an unintended effect: They help men instead. A growing number of economic development programs worldwide provide cash specifically to women in poor communities....