ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on grounding, emergence, navigating and effecting, which can be more or less linked with our inter-institutional genealogy. It also focuses on four critical success factors, such as pertaining to the release of our particular economic GENE-ius, as a community or society, in effecting integral development, most especially, through not exclusively, on the path of renewal. "Civil society" is an even more pervasive phenomenon than the particular NGOs, as it encompasses the plethora of civic and grassroots movements of ordinary people the world over, who feel impelled to act together to address local or global burning issues that they care about passionately. The universal truth was that of the global logic of contemporary agricultural production methods. In the process, both aspects, the local and the global, were enriched; and the dialectic between "local wisdom and global knowledge" is at the heart of the moral economic core.