Moshav

Please consult the book's 2nd edition, above

Three prints of the 1st edition were sold between April 15, 2014 - July 31, 2015. The book went out of print and its adventures in publish-land are discussed here:
https://www.academia.edu/41932472/Jadaliyya_-_New_Text_Out_Now_Author_Interview_with_Smadar_Lavie_on_Wrapped_in_the_Flag_of_Israels_Revised_Edition_with_the_New_Afterword._January_20_2020

In​ ​ recent​ ​ years,​ ​ community​ ​ land​ ​ trusts​ ​ (CLTs)​ ​ have​ ​ come​ ​ to​ ​ the​ ​ fore​ ​ of​ ​ the affordable​ ​ housing​ ​ debate​ ​ as​ ​ a​ ​ mechanism​ ​ to​ ​ combat​ ​ the​ ​ excesses​ ​ of​ ​ the​ ​ speculative housing​ ​ market.​ ​ While​ ​ it​ ​ may​ ​ seem​ ​ like​ ​ the​ ​ CLT​ ​ ​ ​ is​ ​ a​ ​ recently​ ​ constructed​ ​ alternative, the​ ​ debate​ ​ between​ ​ the​ ​ ​ stewardship​ ​ ​ of​ ​ land​ ​ versus​ ​ the​ ​ ​ private​ ​ ownership​ ​ ​ of​ ​ land​ ​ has existed​ ​ in​ ​ America​ ​ since​ ​ pre-colonial​ ​ times,​ ​ dating​ ​ back​ ​ to​ ​ Native​ ​ American​ ​ settlements. Although​ ​ private​ ​ land​ ​ ownership​ ​ is​ ​ the​ ​ norm,​ ​ this​ ​ paper​ ​ serves​ ​ to​ ​ re-contextualize​ ​ the struggle​ ​ for​ ​ collective​ ​ land​ ​ stewardship​ ​ as​ ​ a​ ​ model​ ​ whose​ ​ history​ ​ is​ ​ as​ ​ old​ ​ as​ ​ private land​ ​ ownership.

The exercise of thinking about local development involves considering all the complexity of the actors and their interactions in the economic, environmental and social fields in an articulated way. Some of the forms of articulation for income generation are cooperatives and associations that, through collective work and management, give the community and those involved the role of agents. As a way of thinking about local development through collective initiatives for income generation, our aim is to conduct a transnational comparative analysis of rural cooperative Israeli communities, Moshavim, and an Association
of Artisans in the municipality of Maria da Fé, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The methodology took into account the local context of the enterprises, structuring the comparative case study on the basis of the parameters of pluriactivity, rural enterprises, use of natural resources, alternative generation of income, cooperative organization and mutual assistance. The results indicate similarities in the rurality of both, in the use of natural resources and in mutual assistance. The main differences are in the pluriactivity and in the use of manpower (self-labor and wage-labor).