Practical Action Publishing
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Improved Wood Waste and Charcoal Burning Stoves
A manual for those involved in the day-to-day work of stoves projects. The book describes the chief characteristics, both advantages and disadvantages, of 28 types of stoves.
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Improving Food Security
In many parts of the world, food insecurity and nutritional risk is often greater for females than for males, in infancy, in parenthood (particularly during pregnancy, nursing and as single parents), and in old age. Further, women are usually the key decision-makers in child nutrition. Therefore a s...
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In a Nutshell
A practical, teacher-friendly booklet providing a motivating and relevant context for learning about food manufacture designed for teaching 14-16 year olds (UK key stage 4). In a Nutshell provides information about food processing and small-scale industrial practices, exemplified through case studie...
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Indigenous Knowledge Development in Bangladesh
Development has failed to deliver on many of its promises to nations such as Bangladesh. Even worse, it stands accused sometimes of making matters worse, particularly for the poorest of the poor. The policies imposed from above by international agencies and central governments have been sadly at var...
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Indigenous Knowledge Inquiries
Paul Sillitoe, Peter Dixon, Julian Barr
This manual is for development programme managers and project leaders who wish to incorporate an indigenous knowledge element into their work. The guidelines acknowledge that the design and management of IK-informed projects involve making decisions about many closely interrelated issues. They take...
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Indigenous Organizations and Development
Indigenous organizations are local-level institutions with a community base, such as women's groups, ethnic associations, traditional religious groups, and a wide variety of other social groups.
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Industrial Competitiveness in Africa
Sanjaya Lall, Erika Kraemer-Mbula
This book describes Africa’s position within the current industrial global setting and analyses the recent performance of African manufacturing relative to that of other developing regions. It stresses the rapidly changing technological challenges faced by African economies and Africa’s poor respons...
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Industrial Employment through Appropriate Technology
This paper outlines the role that appropriate technology can play in employment generation in the industrialized West, and is illustrated with examples of technologies already in industrial operation and the policies designed to support them.
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An Initial Course in Tropical Agriculture for the Staff of Co-operatives
A comprehensive course in tropical agriculture for the staff of co-operatives and other organisations.
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Innovations for Urban Sanitation
Jamie Myers, Sue Cavill, Samuel Musyoki, Katherine Pasteur, Lucy Stevens
Over half the world’s population now lives in urban areas and a large proportion of them lives without improved sanitation. Efforts to tackle open defecation in rural areas has been led by the Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS) movement. But how can the community mobilization techniques of CLTS b...