Practical Action Publishing
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Affordable Water Supply and Sanitation
John Pickford, Peter Barker, Adrian Load, Tom Dijkstra
The editors consider the different aspects of, and the issues surrounding, affordable water supply and sanitation. They consider both 'software' aspects - people, communities, health, management and institutions - as well as technological considerations such as waste management.
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The African Development Bank
E Philip English, Harris M Mule
The multilateral banks are powerful forces in the international community, providing loans of more than $250 billion to developing countries over the last halfcentury. The best known of these, the World Bank, has been studied extensively, but the 'regional development banks' are little understood, e...
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Agents of Change
Georges Hénault, E Philip English
This book discusses national strategies for small enterprise, examines legal, regulatory, and tax reform, and makes proposals on how to improve competitiveness and access to credit. Agents of Change provides practical solutions and suggestions for real change, and will be of interest to scholars, st...
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Agrarian Change, Migration and Development
Henry Veltmeyer, Raúl Delgado Wise
The focus and concern of Agrarian Change, Migration and Development is the problem of labour migraton. Veltmeyer and Wise explore the dynamics and development implications of the migration processes set in motion by the capitalist mode of production. The dynamics of these processes are both internat...
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Agricultural Policy Analysis Tools for Economic Development
Written in an accessible manner for development economists and agricultural policy analysts, this book is designed to help researchers.
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Agricultural Trade
A complete coverage of strategic trade theory and application, imperfect competition, market power, and the political economy of agricultural trade. An easy-to-use analysis of trade principles, institutions, and policies.
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Agricultural Value Chain Finance
Agriculture remains an important means of alleviating poverty, but shortage of finance can constrain its development. At the same time, agriculture is evolving towards a global system requiring high-quality, competitive products, and is organized in value chains which often exclude smallholders. Val...
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Agriculture and the Generation Problem
Despite predictions that they are destined to disappear, smallholder or family farms still number more than 500 million worldwide, and account for 80 percent of the world’s food. However, smallholder farmer populations are ageing, and many of them have no successor. Young rural men and women are tur...
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Agro-mechanical Diffusion in a Backward Region
This exploration of the conditions which characterize the process of a general application of agro-mechanical technology is illustrated through a detailed study of the use of a new agricultural tool in rural India.
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Agroecology: Science and Politics
Peter M Rosset, Miguel A Altieri
Our global food system is largely based on unsustainable industrial agricultural practices, is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, is controlled by a handful of large corporations and produces unhealthy food. Agroecology is a solution to these increasingly urgent problems. After decades of b...