In many parts of the world, villagers are departing from ecologically degraded rural environments for overcrowded urban centers, leaving rural ecosystems vulnerable to further exploitation and degradation. Local NGO's have addressed these conditions, with strategies that have enabled villagers to gain a sustainable income from rural ecosystems. They tell us that rural areas need to be made more productive so that rural people can remain in the forests and maintain them. This requires sustainable village development that protects eco-system services. We want to invite leaders of NGO's in these regions to a workshop at the University of North Texas, to share with one another the strategies that have empowered villagers toward self-reliance, discuss challenges they face and share their insights with specialists in anthropological theory. Rural activists and other community members, scholars from Mexico, the USA, India and beyond will present their own narratives related to the theory and praxis of community-based responses to major global, cultural, and environmental pressures. Our objective is to advance in anthropological theory by a focus on non-Western ways of thinking, doing, and acting upon the repercussions of globalizing pressures in rural areas.

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Event Location: 
University of North Texas
1155 Union Circle
Denton , TX
Date and Time: 
Friday, June 10, 2016 - 9:00am to Saturday, June 11, 2016 - 5:00pm
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