Practical Action Publishing
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Titans or Behemoths
This concluding book in the Multilateral Development Bank series draws on the insights presented in the other volumes to summarize the present and future of multilateral development banks as a genre of development agencies. Culpeper goes beyond the scope of the previous volumes in two ways. First,...
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To Cure All Hunger
Few countries face as grim a prospect of food insecurity as the Sudan - bankrupt, at civil war, and ravaged by drought. To Cure All Hunger looks at the scope and the content of appropriate interventions, growth, income, and command over food security. A close study of the causes, dimensions and cons...
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To the Hands of the Poor
Robert Chambers, N Saxena, Tushaar Shah
Confronts the paradox of mass poverty coexisting with vast resource potentials in rural India, such as the potentials from groundwater and trees, previously underestimated. Combines empirical research with practical political economy.
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Toilets That Make Compost
Most People in rural Africa do not have access to safe toilets and their health and well-being suffers as a consequence. There is an urgent need for the construction of simple, low-cost, affordable toilets that are easy to build and maintain. Toilets that make compost provides practical examples of...
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Tools for Agriculture
Tools for Agriculture is a guide to small-scale farming equipment which offers information to smallholder farmers, development workers, and manufacturers all over the world. This revised and updated fourth edition, appearing 25 years after ITDG's original published guide to appropriate equipment, "T...
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Tools for Organic Farming
Large-scale capital-intensive farming is being increasingly questioned, in both developed and developing countries. This book lists small-scale and relatively inexpensive tools for organic farmers, wherever they are in the world.
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Tools for the Field
Hilary Feldstein, Janice Jiggins
Consists of thirty-nine original cases by contributors from the global North and South. Covers Latin America, Asia, and Africa From agricultural production to post-harvest activities, this handbook offers a practical set of tools for anyone interested in gender analysis in agriculture.
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Toward Resilience
Marilise Turnbull, Charlotte Sterrett, Amy Hilleboe
Toward Resilience is an introductory resource for development and humanitarian practitioners working with populations at risk of disasters and other impacts of climate change. It is aimed at program management, advisory and technical staff of development and humanitarian organizations, and seeks to...
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Towards Village Industry
Liv Berg, K Nimpuno, R Zwananberg
Based on their experience in Tanzania, the authors examine the idea that rural development can become the key to economic stability and growth. The premise is that industrialization of the rural areas in developing countries must go hand-in-hand with mechanization of agricultural methods.
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Trade and the Poor
The new second edition updates this popular book, and provides new chapters on alternative trading systems, and international trading organizations such as GATT and the World Trade Organization. Trade and the Poor examines North-South trade in commodities, services and tourism; transnational corpora...