Practical Action Publishing
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Scaling Up Multiple Use Water Services
Barbara van Koppen, Stef Smits, Cristina Rumbaitis del Rio, John Thomas
Poor people in developing countries need water for many purposes: for drinking, bathing, irrigating vegetable gardens, and watering livestock. However, responsibility for water services is divided between different government agencies, the WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) and irrigation sub-sect...
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Scaling-up Community-Led Total Sanitation
Scaling-up Community Led Total Sanitation starts with detailed instructions on how to facilitate CLTS in a village or cluster of villages. It then explores how to scale up and institutionalize CLTS at a regional and national level by gaining the commitment of leaders within government ministries. Th...
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Science, Technology and Development
The relationship between scientific and technological change and development has altered with the changing character of developing countries and with advances in technology. High tech, appropriate technology, technology transfer and diffusion all serve to complicate further the already complex task...
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Science and Technology
Robert E Evenson, Gustav Ranis
The success of newly industrialized countries of Southeast Asia is a prime example of the role that science and technology can play in development strategies. This book aims to identify those policies which have proved to be workable in most situations.
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Science and Technology Council
This paper is based upon a consultancy report prepared for ITDG on behalf of the Government of Botswana. The author states the case for the establishment of a Science and Technology Council for Botswana and attempts to assess the wider implications for other developing countries.
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Scrap Metal Recovery
A case study of the development of a small business in Papua New Guinea involved in recovering a range of scrap, non-ferrous metals. An income-generating opportunity for hundreds of shanty town dwellers.
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Seed-bed Preparation
This guide firstly discusses the various methods of seed-bed preparation with a description of hand tools, animal powered cultivation and tillage systems and continues with a listing of appropriate equipment which includes ploughs harrows and cultivators.
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Seeds and Synergies
Farmers and researchers too often live and work in different realities. Researchers breed plant hybrids in the laboratory that are successful only under ideal conditions, requiring just the right inputs of water, fertilizer, and pesticides. For resource-poor farmers, however, such conditions simply...
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Seeds of Choice
John Witcombe, John Farrington, Daljit Virk
Seeds of Choice provides an in-depth analysis of the regulatory frameworks that cover varietal testing, release and dissemination of seeds. This book analyses the varietal testing system used by the All India Co-ordinated Crop Improvement Projects. The study reveals that reforms are needed if a grea...
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Selling Daylight
What motivates companies to invest giant sums of money? What connects two billion people without dependable electricity with driverless vehicles, virtual reality tech, and the ‘Internet of Things’? Absolutely enormous commercial potential. Energy services in the developing world represent a $100...