This book focuses on empirical experiences related to market development, and specifically new markets with structurally different characteristics than mainstream markets. Europe, Brazil, China and the rather robust and complex African experiences are covered to provide a rich multidisciplinary and multi-level analysis of the dynamics of newly e

Paul Hebinck is Associate Professor Wageningen University, The Netherlands; Adjunct Professor University of Forth Hare, Faculty of Agriculture and Science, Alice, South Africa.

Jan Douwe van der Ploeg is Professor of Transition Studies at Wageningen University, The Netherlands, and Adjunct Professor of Rural Sociology at China Agricultural University in Beijing, China.

Sergio Schneider is Professor of Rural Sociology and Development Studies at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil.

1. The construction of new, nested markets and the role of development policies 2. Newly emerging, nested markets: a theoretical introduction 3. The construction of nested markets 4. Family farming, institutional markets and innovations in public policy 5. Self-labelling, certification and alternative marketing networks 6. Rural tourism in China and the construction of new markets 7. Multi-level rural governance performances and the unfolding of nested rural markets in Europe 8. Smallholder irrigators and fresh produce street traders in Thohoyandou, Limpopo Province, South Africa 9. Beyond land transfers: the dynamics of socially driven markets emerging from Zimbabwe's Fast Track Land Reform Programme 10. In the shadow of global markets 11. Reconsidering the contribution of nested markets to rural development