Developing local light industry
- Small-scale manufacturing
- Cottage industry
- Initiating appropriate light industry
- Starting local industries ventures
- Extending local light industry
- Increasing light industry base
- Launching light industry ventures
- Establishing light industry
- Accelerating light industry development
- Introducing suitable light industry
Description
Developing industrial ventures which a few people with limited capital can initiate. These include cottage industries; ancillary industry; small scale processing of local products (i.e. jam making from locally grown fruit); and intermediate assembly of products.
Context
The difficulties of making large industrial investments in uncertain economic times have made small productive units attractive, especially in lesser-developed economies, in rural areas and among the unemployed.
This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.
Claim
The private sector and local communities, in cooperation with national governments, should promote local infrastructure development, including communication networks, mini- or micro-hydro development to support cottage industries, and access to markets.
Counter-claim
Light industry of this type has an extremely high failure rate for individual industries.
From a local perspective, light industry has little control over markets, credit and most resources; this increases the risk of failure.
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