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This article draws from the preliminary findings of an ongoing appliedresearch program on rural territorial dynamics carried out by the Latin American Center for Rural Development (RIMISP). The article provides some initial findings on 4 territories, of the 11 territories that are part of the overall study. The case studies include the island of Chiloé in southern Chile, the province of Tungurahua in Ecuador, a dairy farm region of Santo Tomás Nicaragua and Cuatro Lagunas near Cuzco Perú. Rural areas in Latin America are characterized by their dual nature with agro-exporting enclaves linked to global value chains alongside impoverished peasant economies, leading to differentiated policy recommendations. The research attempts to find relationships between reduced poverty and inequality in winning regions, measured by three variables, with issues of access to resources, human capital, political empowerment, markets and institutions, with particular attention to innovative social coalitions. ; Este artículo es un avance del estudio sobre dinámicas territoriales que lleva a cabo el Centro Latino Americano para el Desarrollo Rural (RIMISP). En el se analizan 4 de los 11 territorios del programa de investigación sobre dinámicas territoriales en América Latina, la isla de Chiloé en el sur de Chile, la provincia de Tungurahua en Ecuador, la región de Santo Tomás en Nicaragua y Cuatro Lagunas en Cuzco Perú. Considerando la bimoda-lidad del sector rural Latinoamericano donde se contraponen enclaves agroexportadores integrados a cadenas de valor globales con zonas campesinas empobrecidas incidiendo en políticas diferenciadas, el estudio busca encontrar la relación entre el acceso a activos productivos, el capital humano, el empoderamiento político, y el papel de los mercados y las instituciones, principalmente de las coaliciones sociales innovadoras en las regiones ganadoras.

This special section brings together 4 of the 12 studies conducted within a research program analyzing the relationships among social mobilization, governance, and rural development in contemporary Latin America. The introduction gives an overview of the contemporary significance of social movements for rural development dynamics in the region, and of the principal insights of the section papers and the broader research program of which they were a part. This significance varies as an effect of two distinct and uneven geographies: the geography of social movements themselves and the geography of the rural political economy. The effects that movements have on the political economy of rural development also depend significantly on internal characteristics of these movements. The paper identifies several such characteristics. The general pattern is that movements have had far more effect on widening the political inclusiveness of rural development than they have on improving its economic inclusiveness and dynamism. © 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.