Grassroots Matter: Lessons Learned From Community-Based Local Economies Projects

The NGO Committee on Social Development presents the results of its 2015 survey of community‐based local economies projects. The 70 projects identified, located in 26 different countries are local, collaborative groups in which people assessed their own needs and developed economic strategies to meet them.

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