Intervenors intervened: organizational predicaments and institutional contradictions in the production of export plantains in the Atlantic Zone of Costa Rica: Field Report - Atlantic Zone Programme (CATIE-AUW-MAG) no. 88

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to cast some light onto the nature of intervention processes. In particular, the article wishes to counter the view -popular in much of the literature on rural development- that there exists a implementation and outcomes. It is argued that this is a gross simplification since intervention necessarily comprises the struggles, negotiations and accomodations faced by all actor s involved in the process.