Countryside

• In peasant studies, special consideration
  should be accorded to peasant women
  since they experience "double discrimination."
• Indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) are alternative worldview
  that challenge the reductionist and elitist western paradigm.
• Neoliberal economics threatens the food sovereignty of many
  countries in the Global South (food as a political weapon).
• The praxis (theory + practice) of development
  should be rights-based.
• Urban poverty is an off-shoot of rural poverty but through
  time the former assumes a character of its own.