However, it stemmed primarily from the populace's ingrained and instinctive conservatism, which only the gradual development of a grassroots opposition movement was later able to overcome.
Under a contract awarded by Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras), KBR is to provide licensing, basic engineering and extended basic engineering, and technical consulting services for the development of a grassroots ammonia plant in Tres Lagoas, Brazil.
We propose a framework of five different scales to analyze the development of grassroots innovations and we apply this framework on the long-term development of an agricultural grassroots innovation movement that pioneered innovative dairy farming practices combined with landscape management.
Beckman, Conzo, and Cooper's works "show the development of a culture from the grassroots, and these photographers were part of propagating the culture to ever expanding audiences," he continues.
In the 2004 election, Ruffini served as webmaster for Bush-Cheney '04, managing day-to-day operations on the campaign's Web site and helping oversee development of the grassroots tools that mobilized an army of 1.4 million campaign volunteers.
After working as the director of a grassroots development organization in West Africa from 1999 200101, Katherine went on to do strategy consulting for the Center for Global Development, PBS Frontline, the Center for a New American Dream, and the African Public Broadcasting Foundation.
8. Development of parallel grassroots participatory economic institutions that are both transnational and community-oriented, to facilitate emergence of alternative equitable media of exchange and loans between North and South.
7. Development of parallel grassroots participatory political structures that are both transnational and community-oriented, by which to facilitate community governance as well as greater popular involvement in mainstream political institutions.
The wider context of our research is an interest in how best to facilitate local responses to AIDS, and in understanding how "interventions by outside professionals" may sometimes unintentionally undermine local coping mechanisms, and reduce the development of effective grassroots AIDS leadership.
Brand development is often the last thing on the mind of an executive director of a grassroots NGOs working in a developing country.
But, most of all, it is about nurturing the development of a truly revolutionary explosion in small-scale grassroots creative businesses.
