Practical Action Publishing
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Try the Rabbit
A guide to small-scale rabbit breeding based on experience in Ghana. Includes advice on how to set up and manage a rabbitry.
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Women in Development
This book answers the questions: What has development done for women? Why do planners talk of integrating women into development? What role do women really play in multinational companies? In food production? In health? In communication and education? Reprinted in 1991.
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Educational Wooden Toys in Sri Lanka
A case study about the work of IT IS and Sarvodaya, a Sri Lankan development charity, in establishing the local production of educational pre-school toys. Full colour photographs illustrate the production process and end results.
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Entrepreneurship for the Poor
The objective of this book is to provide information about entrepreneurship development programmes whose objective is to help people from the poorer groups in developing countries to create jobs for themselves by starting small enterprises. This information is intended for people who are responsible...
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Foundations for Change
The construction industry pattern of most industrialized countries is often unsuited to the needs of developing countries. Case studies in Ghana and Sri Lanka suggest a new approach, and illustrate how existing frameworks could be changed.
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The Golden Insect
This handbook on tropical beekeeping for beginners is based on first hand Ghanaian experience.
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Rice Husk Ash Cement
A state of the art review of rice husk ash cement technology in the Indian subcontinent, highlighting its effectiveness as an alternative low-cost binding material. Includes case studies of field-testing in local institutions.
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Rural Roads and Poverty Alleviation
This study analyses the pattern and the use of local road networks, and the causes and effects of road programmes, for goods transport and in the areas of personal travel, education, health - and poverty alleviation in general. The impact of the selection criteria actually used in specific road prog...
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Septic Tanks and Aquaprivies from Ferrocement
This book describes the potential of ferrocement as a construction material; gives details of how septic tanks and aquaprivy waste treatment and soil disposal units are designed and constructed; and gives details of other low-cost sanitation options.
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Small Business Promotion
A collection of 28 case-studies from 17 countries, this book describes failures as well as successes, and provides stimulating material for students, teachers, trainers and business people themselves.