Practical Action Publishing
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Baking for Profit
Most communities have the capacity to support a well-run bakery operation. With good planning and access to raw materials and markets, setting up a bakery can represent an excellent enterprise opportunity. Baking for Profit provides the information that a small entrepreneur needs to address when set...
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Bangladesh
This book addresses, in the Bangladesh context, the fundamental processes of agrarian structural change and their gender implications, opportunities for wider participation by landless men and women in agricultural growth; the social implications of rural works and fish culture programmes; rural ins...
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Barefoot Book
Barefoot Book explores the potential of `intermediate' services for the rural poor, using examples in the fields of health care, law, administration, economics, banking, management, craft, mechanics, building and geology.
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The Barefoot Guide to Exploring the Real Work of Social Change
The Barefoot Guide Writers' Collective
This is a book about social change practices from many countries. It contains a variety of stories, analyses, and ideas. It also has many poems and illustrations to illuminate and enhance the text. For activists, civil society leaders, practitioners and students, this is not a book of easy answe...
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The Barefoot Guide to Mobilizing Religious Health Assets for Transformation
The 3rd Barefoot Guide Writers' Collective
Health, freedom and social justice cannot be separated. Anyone who loves a neighbourhood, a nation or a small planet enough to work for its future, inevitably measures success by its health and well-being. Health is one way to describe our capacity to be alive and to play our role as members of fami...
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The Barefoot Guide to Working with Organisations and Social Change
This is a practical, do-it-yourself guide for leaders and facilitators wanting to help organisations to function and to develop in more healthy, human and effective ways as they strive to make their contributions to a more humane society. It has been developed by the Barefoot Collective. The guide,...
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Barefoot Revolution
Calls for a redirection of the economic strategy of the last twenty years. Identifies and measures the impact of an alternative approach through small-scale development projects run by non-governmental organizations.
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Basic Accounting for Community Organizations and Small Groups
The success of any venture, whatever its size, depends on proper financial control. This book offers a step-by-step guide to basic accounting and financial management techniques. It is written in plain language for people who have no previous experience of accounting and book-keeping. Using simple c...
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Basic Blacksmithing
Starting with only an anvil and a few basic tools, almost all the tools needed by a blacksmith can be made from commonly found materials. With clear instructions this book gives step by step instructions on basic blacksmithing.
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Beating Hunger, The Chivi Experience
This book describes a project among small-scale farmers in the drought-prone and arid communal lands of Zimbabwe which, within the broad remit of promoting food security, helped the farmers identify their problems and choose their own solutions to them. Central to the project was the attention paid...