Rural Reconstruction Movement

At the dawn of the new century, as the industry expands and the process of modernization accelerates in China, the essential ingredients in village production gradually outflow. This phenomenon has resulted in the destruction of traditional life, which is fundamental to rural civilization. With the decline of rural civilization, increasing attention has been aroused to the Three Rural Issues.

Since the Green Revolution, the mode of agricultural production satisfying the natural environmental and resources has been promoted all over the world. Agricultural products started to be included in the globalized trading system, which imposes its own formula of production costs (which assumes mass production of a single product) based on general labor productivity. Compelled by the difficult environment for survival, more farmers with small land-holding have been severed from their land. At the same time, mass-manufactured goods besieged rural villages, ousting the traditional hand-crafted goods which were no match of such product in terms of efficiency of production and production costs. The labor which was "liberated" from their land and handicraft workshops moved into cities, speeding up urbanization, which resulted in the vicious cycle of "city surrounded by village" with new problems of employment, social security and provision for the elderly.

To find a way out of modernization's rules of operation and rediscover traditional rural civilization, the young people of this century have stared another round of "go to the countryside" movement with the goal of building the "new" village.

(Reference: This article written by Yan Xiaohui - China) 

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Structural Crisis, Speculative Attacks and Food Sovereignty

The present crisis is not only a financial one. It is a crisis of civilization. The convergence of long term contradictory processes in several levels (economic, demographic, ecological, etc.) has reduced capital's margin of maneuvering with historical progressive projection, opening the room for very painful situations for large segments of Earth's Population.

The anti-fascist forces victory in the Second World War triggered the constitution of a series of regimes of accumulation with significant endogenous dynamics of growth based upon re-distributive patterns at the domestic and the international levels that expressed the new balance of power. The pervasive destruction of local food provision systems in favor of national structures linked to international markets of commodities under the norms and negotiations of GATT had a corresponding enhancement of macroeconomic and sectorial instruments of policy with different and contradictory degrees of sovereignty, within the Socio-technological framework of agro-Chemicalization and mechanization. 

The quarter of century long wave of high growth – high profits of capitalism under USA hegemony ended by the middle of the sixties, claiming for another set of technological and institutional arrangements conducive towards higher rates of profits for monopoly capital.

Given the structural crisis of over-production and over-accumulation that even affected the rhythm of moral obsolescence and fixed capital rotation with not enough room for its full description, investment leanings favored speculative hypertrophy as overlapping networks of claims on uncertain future production.

Being systemically counter-productive from profitability considerations, technical innovation, massive as it is, gradually opened room for archaic forms of exploitation that tended to reappear deferentially in center, periphery and semi-periphery, structuring a new wave of regressive re-distribution, "originant" accumulation and geographical siphoning out of value and resources. Market insufficiency end up "compensated" via debt, which converged with the needs for financial investment opportunities and de-regulation in a contest of the Bretton Woods System dismantling.

The two main vectors of monopoly capital systemic profit improving, financialization and globalization, exacerbated capital unsustainability trends.

The specific effects on food vulnerability for significant parts of the South appear opaque under conjectural conditions of favorable terms of exchange and hot money inflows. "Bublization" became more and more a structural feature, including commodity markets and, especially, food provision, involving increasing amounts of capital accumulation and more essential mechanisms of power reproduction among the high commands of the society.

The financial implosion of the structural crisis concerned the core of monopoly capital into a crazy dynamics of further speculation in absence of reliable and sufficiently profitable productive options for investment. The "remedies" tend to push that speculative ammunition through colossal injections of out-of-the blue issued liquidity under the dollar global quasi-monopoly.

The resultant metastasis of structural insolvability and the essential distortion of key price formation mechanism shed high levels of irreversibility at a global dimension without precedents of local reproduction engagement ever. The possibilities of a very grave food crisis triggered by any factor under this speculative construction are imminent.

(Reference: This article written by Pedro Paez Perez)

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Economic Resilience

This post explores the dynamic properties of organisms and ecosystems that make them so resilient and capable of adapting to changing circumstances, allowing them to maintain an overall condition of coherence, wholeness and health while living in balance within the resources of the planet. Key principles of resilient ecological systems are explored including: self-regulation; positive and negative feedback; diversity; scale and context; cooperation; emergence and novelty; and ecological tipping points. In contrast, market based economic systems can produce unstable growth with unintended destruction of cultural and species diversity and homogenization of global life-styles. The paper re-examines fundamental economic principles using insights from biological evolution and ecosystem dynamics to establish a foundation for resilient economies.

This involves experimenting with different models in different communities to find patterns of sustainable production and exchange appropriate to local regions. Fundamental steps in this direction include the emergence of self-organizing local communities based on creative experimentation, re-localization of currencies and banking practices that support local enterprise and investment in green technologies, stimulation of decentralized renewable energy networks and economic reform aligned with ecological principles.

The Transition Network provides a case study of an international community based movement that has been experimenting with putting some of these principles into practices at the local level. The aim of the Transition Network is to support community led responses to peak oil and climate change, building resilience and well-being. The concept of ecological resilience and its application to local economy is hard wired into the values and emerging structure of the network of transition communities across the globe. The movement started in the UK in 2005 and there are now over 1000 Transition initiatives spanning 34 countries across the world. Many attribute the success and phenomenal growth of the Transition Network to its emerging holographic structure that mimics cell growth within living organisms.

Growing a more resilient food system in the face of the twin challenges of natural resources scarcity and climate change is central to the Transition movement. A set of principles for a post carbon resilient food economy in the UK are offered. These include an 80% cut in carbon emission in the food sector by 2050, agricultural diversification, prioritization of farming methods that establish and enhance carbon sinks, phasing out of dependence on fossil fuels in food growing, processing and distribution, promoting access to nutritious and affordable food, as well as promoting greater access to land for growing food in urban and peri-urban areas. Practical example of Transition related projects in the food sector are presented across the following themes: access t land, low carbon production methods, food distribution systems, health and community gardens and orchards, and collaborative ownership models.

(Reference: This article written by Julie Rechardson)

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Survival Crisis and Ecological Crisis

All kind of human society has to solve two issues: survival problem and ecological problem. The solution of survival problem has two aspects: 1. How to acquire necessary materials (from nature), top free of hungry and poverty; 2. How to distribute the material, to purchase equality and justice. The former refers to social productivity; the latter refers to social institution.

In the long history when human only has weak ability to acquire materials from nature, the solution of survival problem focused on searching a better social institution, to reform, or to resolute. Making use of science and scientific technology, human have the power to acquire more and more materials from nature, after human came into industrial civilization. Human found a new way to treat survival problem, even if the distribution institution was not fair, every parts might have more material than before. Survival problem seems to be solved, but ecological problem came unexpectedly. The ecological problem is the problem of relationship between human and nature, manifesting as environmental pollution and ecological collapse.

The industrial civilization shows an illusion that the advancement of science and technology has no limitation, and the materials human can take from nature have no limitation. Therefore, a view of one-direction social development was accepted as mainstream ideology. Under the social structure of industrial civilization,

1.      In fact, the equality and justice issues was not solved, but neglected, or pushed to future;

2.       In modern societies, theoretically, human has equal human right, including the equal right to exploit nature;

3.       While, such equality is only an ideal, the modernization is a food chain ---- the upstream parts exploit the downstream parts, and both of them exploit natural; but generally, the upstream exploit natural indirectly by exploiting the downstream, which happens between the different levels of one country, and happens more often among different countries in the time of globalization; therefore, the ecological problems are transferred to the downstream; 

4.      The worsen of ecological crisis, so the survival problem in the downstream countries are more serve, and all human being face the survival crisis because of the collapse of global ecology in the coming future. 

Under the social structure of industrial civilization, science and its technology cannot solve any one of the two crises. In the society of industrial civilization,

1.      The capital proliferation is the most important thin above all, even the validity of government are built on the continuous increasing of economy;

2.      Science and its technology have to serve for the capital proliferation: those which can help capital proliferation are easier developed out, and easier to be used; 

3.      Such technologies generally originated from the mathematical and physical science which are based on the view of mechanism, and its application must destroy the integrity of the natural and result environmental problem; 

4.      The role of science community were changed --- science community is at the first a community with common economical interests, then a knowledge community, but never a moral community; 

5.      As an interest community, it tries to maximize its interests; naturally, it may try to strengthen its constitutional position in social structure that it may acquire more social resource, and try to cooperate with economical power and political power.

Seeing from such a perspective, most new technologies, such as so-called clean energy, are used first as means of capital gambling, or tools of new capital conquering old capital. Their applications might be good for the environment of some specified place within a certain period, but they will make the global ecological crisis more severe.

Modern societies generally have the ideology of worshipping energy so that the solution of energy problem is regarded as the key of all other problems. While, considering the limitation of the earth, and the garbage problem, the solution of energy problem won’t be the blessing of human being, but the curse.

Human has to find a new way of civilization: ecological civilization. The ecological civilization won’t come to reality by the repairing and re-patching of industrial civilization. It needs;

1. To criticize the industrial civilization completely;

2. To learn from tradition.

This civilization needs a totally reconstruction.

(Reference: This article is written by Tian Song)

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Facebook Graph Search: New Challenges for Google

 

Facebook is the king of the social networking site and it has just been introducing new search engine as Graph Search. Billions of people have been connecting and interacting globally through Facebook. In these days Google and other top search engines have been facing the challenges from Facebook ads. Because of the rising ads funds in Facebook and decreasing the growth rate of ads in other search engines companies is the big problem. A Facebook ad is the major income sources of Facebook and its market coverage ratio has been growing.

New generation has been getting the opportunity to learn new thing from social networking sites and Facebook is being essential to connect with friends and other people globally. Wherever you stay but you want to connect with your friends. So that people are getting first priority for Facebook rather than foods. Even people are having been using their cell phone with Facebook apps while travelling or in wash room. Therefore, right now Facebook has launched its new feature as Graph Search which is similar to other search engines but you will get different experiences on it; in other words, its features are totally new. While searching keyword in Graph Search you will get exact results and it will help to search your nearest people and their activities.

How does Graph Search Work?

You may be curious to know how Graph Search works. I was also curious before having experiences. I have got chances to connect with Graph Search and got experience. It is simple that when you type any keyword in Graph Search, then you will get specific result. For example, when you want to know about a single female live in New York, you will get thousands of results. Similarly you can search a single women live in your own place or specific places then you will get exact result what your searching. Facebook have already collected billions of individual data and it has used all the data for Graph Search. If you have public Search privacy then your information will not be publish or it will be hidden. Therefore you should take better action for your public search privacy. If you have shared your information as open sources then it will be helpful to know your information to Graph searchers. It is a nice idea to match the result and help to connect with people. What do you think in your mind or what do you want to search, you will get quick result and get connect for interaction with them. You will get all the results form Facebook, which information's have already existing in Facebook.

Perfect Dating Site:

Graph Search 

I'm little bit doubt that whether it will be the dating site. Because there have been billions of people already connected with Facebook and their every information have stored in Facebook. While searching specific keyword, Graph Search shows the nearest matching results. People who are searching for boys or girls in Facebook, they will get information easily and connect with them. It might be a dating site after introducing the Graph Search. Many people are eager to know the information about girls and boys; Facebook Graph Search help to shows the result as specific information like, age status, marital status, location zones, interest and hobbies, their activates, timeline, email address, biography, languages status, mobile numbers etc. All these information help to those people, who are searching dating spot. Yes you can search as who is living a single woman in your nearest place and what she have been doing and what is her age, friends, interest, hobbies etc.

If you are searching a girlfriend or boyfriends then you can search some keyword in Graph Search and will get specific results and join with them for interaction. We know there is thousands of dating site but not perfect like this. Because of the craziness of the people over Facebook and its interaction with interested people.

New Challenges for Google:

There is no doubt that Facebook is the world largest online social network as well as most preferred social networking site and Google is the king of the Search Engine in this internet giant. Google has its own community site as Google + but facing challenge from Facebook in terms of Google Ads and Goolge + Community. Google has started its new features as social networking or community site like Google + to get more engagement of people on Google Product and services.  However, Google has been losing its ads market because of the more engagement of people in Facebook. People are being more and more creasy over Facebook and spending their more time in Facebook Like, Comment, and Share etc. So that Google is being worry on this critical issue. The main income source of Google is Google ads and now its market has been downsized.

Facebook has introduced Graph Search as new feature and it will be helpful to cover more market but Google is seeing as a challenges. The major concern of Google is, people are more engaging in Facebook and how to restores in Google Search Engines and Google Plus. Graph Search is different from Google Search Engines but if people more engage in Facebook Graph Search then there will be decrease the Google ads market and Facebook will get more ads on its Facebook page and community. Google needs to take innovative ideas to restores it market and attract people on its community. 

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7 SEO Tips for Beginners

SEO is the powerful online marketing tools for a blog or site. Without strong SEO strategy, a blogger or web publisher cannot reach in mass audiences. Therefore, SEO is the essential component of a blog or site. A newbies may not know the hidden ways of the competitive web world. Thus, right SEO ideas assist to reach mass audiences and also assist to make money. Getting tons of traffics to your site will be impossible without the promotion to your site. So that it’s the right time to learn how to promote your site and get lots of audiences to your site. Just think, why people love your blog or site? Because of, appropriate way to promote your sites.

In this competitive blogging ages, new bloggers are getting less visitors to their sites because of lack of the appropriate guidance or lack of adequate knowledge of SEO. It’s hard to get find visitors or attract visitors to your site without getting SEO guidance. You need to take better action to convert your effort into reality. So that don’t waste your time by doing wrong action, right now you have to learn best and pragmatic way of SEO. When people hangover to your site then there will be chances to return back again. You need to take little bit time to learn right way to promote your site and reach billions of visitors globally.

7 SEO Tips for New Blogger:

1.      Focus on writing quality contents:New bloggers should focus on writing quality content to their blog or sites. Quality is the main Mantra to get tons of traffics. Before writing any article you should have adequate information on the writing issues and also have adequate evidences with research base data. People as well search engine always prioritize the quality contents. Quality is the standard of content and it consist with adequate evidences, data, research base analysis, inspection, data filters etc. you should not compromise on the quality side of a content. You should focus on the quality rather than quantity of content. Quantity is also important for newbies to ranking sites on search engines but quality content assist to get quick ranking.

2.      Involve in Social Media Interaction: This is the time of social media and its power is unlimited. Billions of people are involving in the social media interaction and sharing. It helps to get traffics as well as high PageRank link to your site. When people love your content then you may share the link on social media. There are two types of social media; social networking sites and social bookmarking sites. Facebook, Twitter, Google +, Myspace, Hi5 etc are most popular social networking sites and billions of audiences already have connected with them. Reddit, Delicious, Diggo, Dig, Tumlr, StumbleUpon etc are popular social book marking sites. So that you can create your account on these social media and share your every post to your friends. Its right place to share your content your friends. You can make friends globally and share your best ideas, views, opinion with then. It helps to interact with them and they flow your blogs or sites.

3.      Commenting on others blogs:it’s another popular way to get backlinks and interact with people. Comment on DoFollow blogs helps get backlinks as well as traffics to your sites. Sot that you can leave your comment while reading others blogs or sites.  It also helps to interact with different people and they also follow you.  Some blog and site listing top comment and recent comment to their home page. So that it’s high chances to get traffics from the others blogs. It is also another ways to get high PR backlink to your sites and ranking your sites.

4.      Engage in Community Forum interaction:you can engage in various community forum and share you best ideas to other people. When you interact with them or when you share your nice suggestion and ideas then they will follow to you. There are many social forums and you can create your account at free of cost and involve on interaction. Include your url at community profile, it help to get link to your sites. It is also a popular ways to get tons of traffic as well as authentic link to your sites.

5.      Submit your sites on Search Engines and Directories: you can also submit your site on major search engines and directories. It helps to get backlink to your site as well as referral traffics. We know that there is 90 percent traffics get from search engines referral and more than seventy percent referral comes from Google. So that you should submit your site on top search engines like, Google, yahoo!, Being, MSN etc. and high PR Directories like DMOZ, Yahoo directories !, Technorati ! Toplist, Blogline etc. it will take little bit time to get list your site on search engines and directories but need to submit your site.

6.      You have to do Keyword Research:You have to do the keyword research to your blog content. You must know what people are most searching in the internet and which topic or word is getting on top priorities. It is the essential part of SEO. It helps to get quick ranking on search engines and search enters your site through search engines. There are various ways to research for keyword. You can choose the Google Keyword tools to research the keyword. While writing content you should include the SEO friendly keyword and need to understand what people prefer?

7.      Guest Blogging: it is the nice way to get traffic to your site. You can write content or article for other blogs. You will get chance to include your link in various high PR blog. It helps to get high PR link from other sites and drive traffic to your sites. There are many blogs offering for guest blogging. You can write on comluv.com, which is the best place to write guest blog. You can also submit your articles on different articles submission sites. It helps to get the right visitors to your sites as well as link to your sites. It is really appropriate for newbies who are suffering from low traffics to their sites. Newbies get chances to learn how to get or drive traffics from difference sources. Newbies must follow this idea to get high profile to their sites.

In conclusion, SEO is the most powerful marketing tools and it help to drive traffic to the blog or site.  Therefore newbies should concentrate their attention after designing a nice blog or sites. Without SEO practice we cannot imagine bulk traffics. So that just learn SEO ideas and covert your ideas into traffics and monetize your traffics also.

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7 Ways to Write Quality Content to Your Site

Content is the king of a blog or site. Without a content blog or site will be meaningless. So that content should be includes in a blog or site. Content should be targeted for specific readers. Age factors, gender factors, education level, culture & tradition, geography, income level, life style of people, etc. directly or indirectly impact on content. Therefore, content should be focus on a specific niche or a category.

Content can be related to technology and science, fashion, arts and culture, business, economy, politics, sports, society, tourism, environment and legal, history, SEO, blogging, climate change, marketing etc. thus, an author should be concentrating on a particular category and includes the appropriate information. Author should not forget the quality side of content. Quality is the important component of content.  However, there are certain measurements to know the quality of content.

Content: Content is a collection of the information which consists with news, views, opinions, history, story, data, and auto-biography, bibliography etc.; information can collect from primary and secondary sources. FM Radio, Magazine, Newspapers, T.V., Reports, journals, text book, audio and video, literatures, interviews, diary, letters, wallpapers, thesis paper, case study, meeting etc. and also use our experiences, experiment, professional expertise etc. are major sources of information.

Quality: Quality is the features of content, in my personal opinion; quality consists with evidences, reality, research base data, and analytical key finding etc. Quality articles always get the high priority on the eyes of readers as well as search engines. People love to read quality content and also they do bookmarking if they get quality contents. Quality content with research base data analysis can be a perfect article and help to get quick ranking in search engines. Therefore, we have to focus on the quality of content rather than quantity of the contents.

How to get Information to write quality Content:

a)      Published Sources:

 # Newspapers, magazine, internet, radio, TV, reports and publication of reputed   INGOs, UNDP, ADB, UNESCO, WB, WHO, CBS etc.

# Reports and Publication of ministers, departments of government,

# Reports and publication of reliable NGO’s journals, periodicals and annual performance reports,

# Get information from renowned blog articles, Wikipedia, encyclopedia, directory, dictionary, library resources.

# Research Paper, Thesis paper, Proposal paper, report writing, and case study

b)     Unpublished Sources:

# Personal Diary, letters, hands out, government or official letter or unpublished documents,

# Records maintained by research institution

# Records updated by various organization for their internal purpose

Need to do Content Analysis:

Content analysis is a method of studying and analyzing communication material in a systematic, objective and quantitative manner to measure variables. The communication material may be newspaper articles, editorials, TV, FM Radio, internet, letters, diaries, ethnographic material, audio visual documents, minutes of meeting, magazines, periodicals etc. So that content analysis has not done to measure variable as such. Rather, it has been used to determine the relative emphasis or frequency of various communication phenomena, propaganda, trends, styles, changes in contents reliability etc. in content analysis; author takes the communication material from various sources and filters (inspecting) the information, whether reliable or not. Contents analysis should be emphasis on the inspection of the theme of the materials.

Ways to write quality contents:

1.      Collection of information: collection of information is the major task. We can get lots of information from various resources and we should collet and storage. Before writing article we should have adequate information to write in a particular subjects. We can collect information from published sources and unpublished sources but need a reliable sources and right information. Therefore, collection of information  helps to write a perfect article and storage information whenever it can be used.

2.      Inspection of Information: it is the important task and each information may not be reliable. Therefore need to scrutinize the information from various ways and get right information. Some time we get rumor information and we should not believe on it. Although, we can do content analysis after finishing the article and fill the gaps where is lacks.

3.      Adequate research on topics: Before writing any articles or contents, we need to take further more time to study on related topics. Without getting adequate knowledge, the content will not fill by valuable resources. Therefore, don’t hurry to write more articles and write less and resourceful content. Adequate research on the related category helps to add more advantages.

4.      Prepare a draft of content: After gathering information from various resources, prepare a draft paper to your content.  Just includes all information what you have and finalize the draft paper. Draft paper is not final to publish. It helps to think more about the topics and its main body.

5.      Read your prepared Draft: After preparing draft of content, you must read each and every word, phrase  and sentences; which  included in your content. It helps to correction part of the content. If you found any mistake then do underline.  Missing information add on the side of the draft.

6.      Edit your draft where it necessary: it is time to do correction of your content. Which word is appropriate or which sentence and phrase are important, you need to calculate. It is the last chances to correction of your content before finalizing or publishing it. If you found wrong information or misleading information then cut off them. Includes appropriate words and phrases while editing the contents. If draft paper is perfect then no need to edit.

7.      Finalize and publish: It is the final stage to write quality content. All above mention ways are systematic manner and guides to write superior articles. So that after editing your draft paper of content, you need to say its OK and send for publication. Thus, you should take an appropriate action while publishing content.

In conclusion, you should focus on quality of content rather than the quantity. Quality content always gets the priority on search engines and readers also love to read and bookmarking, social networking share, comments by the readers. You need to get adequate information before writing articles. Scrutinizing of the information is your duty.    

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