Practical Action Publishing
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Complex Problems, Negotiated Solutions
The pace of change for many rural communities across the developing world is exponential. New technology, economic globalization, finite natural resources, political realities and cultural erosion can together represent change of such magnitude and shock that it overwhelms the capacity of civil soci...
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Cover Crops in Smallholder Agriculture
Lessons learned in Latin America is about the use and dissemination of cover crops in different agreoecosystems need to be made more widely available not only to Spanish speaking, but also Anglophone regions. This publication aims to inform a wide range of actors involved in rural development projec...
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Land Reform and Peasant Livelihoods
This critical analysis of the performance of land-reform programmes on a world-wide basis is written by several prominent scholars who have extensive experience in field research, advisory work and the implementation of reform programmes. They provide empirical evidence from many countries how impro...
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Micro- and Small Enterprises in Latin America
Jacob Levitsky, Lene Hojmark Mikkelsen
This publication should be of special interest to all people working on programmes related to small enterprise development, including representatives of business associations, financial institutions, universities, business schools, research organisations,
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Wall to Wall Design
Wall to Wall Design provides teachers with an opportunity to explore issues surrounding the appropriate design and application of technology in the building of homes in both Kenya and the UK. The resource pack uses the IT Kenya's Masaai housing project as a practical case study, where women are resp...
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Double Standards, Single Purpose
For the majority of the urban poor in developing countries, European standards for housing and infrastructure are inappropriate and unaffordable. But what is the alternative? This was the issue addressed by an international research project within ITDGs Shelter Programme, of which this book is the m...
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Electricity in Households and Microenterprises
Most people in the world have either no access to electricity or a poor and unreliable supply, yet the importance of access to electricity cannot be overstated. This source book aims to provide practical help in gaining accessibility to electricity for those living in remote or rural communities as...
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Ethnoveterinary Medicine
This volume contains some 700 abstracts from around the world relating to peoples animal healthcare, otherwise known as ethnoveterinary medicine. Each abstract, many of the substantial, contains where possible detail of the livestocks disease, the name of the treatment, its method of preparation and...
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A Field Manual of Camel Diseases
Ilse Köhler-Rollefson, Evelyn Mathias, Paul Mundy
The one-humped camel, or dromedary, is one of the world's hardiest domesticated animals. A vital source of transport, meat, milk and income for pastoralists in the Sahel, East Africa, the Middle East and South Asia, the camel can carry heavy loads for days in some of the world's most hostile conditi...
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Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa
Stephen Devereux, Simon Maxwell
Sub-Saharan Africa's persistent food insecurity and vulnerability to famine reflects failures of understanding as much as failures of interventions. Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa aims to contribute towards an improved understanding for more effective food security policy. This book brings toge...