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Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards Arabic 3rd edition
The Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS) target livestock-owning communities affected by humanitarian crises. Drawing on international evidence-based best practice, LEGS supports practitioners to design and implement emergency responses that protect and rebuild livestock-base... -
Normas y directrices para intervenciones ganaderas en emergencias Tercera edición
El Manual de las Normas y directrices para intervenciones ganaderas en emergencias (LEGS) se centra en las comunidades ganaderas afectadas por crisis humanitarias. Sustentado en las mejores prácticas basadas en la evidencia, el manual ayuda a profesionales del sector a diseñar e implementar respuest...
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Normes et directives pour l’aide d’urgence à l’élevage Troisième édition
Le manuel des Normes et directives pour l’aide d’urgence à l’élevage (LEGS) est axé sur les communautés d’éleveurs affectées par des crises humanitaires. En s’appuyant sur les meilleures pratiques à partir de données probantes, le manuel aide les praticiens à concevoir et mettre en oeuvre des interv...
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Contested Global Governance Space and Transnational Agrarian Movements
This book is the first study of the new transnational agrarian movements (TAMs) from their perspective. Merging scholarship with activism through a methodology of observant participation, it explores how TAMs strategize within the global governance of agriculture to confront neoliberal aims of expan...
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Gender and Resilience in the City
Gender and Resilience in the City is an exploration of one urbanizing city: Bharatpur Nepal, from 2014 to 2019. Bharatpur is representative of countless dynamic cities around the world. Local authorities and residents are learning what it means to be in a city in which the rural and urban are morphi...
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Addressing Conflict, COVID, and Climate Change
Marielle Snel, Nikolas Sorensen
Humanitarian crises are growing in length and complexity due to external destabilising pressures including conflict, COVID, and climate change, with the average length of refugee situations now exceeding twenty years. Until now, there has not been any specific WASH publication of this kind that refl...
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Scholar-Activism and Land Struggles
Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Jennifer C. Franco
This book is about scholar-activism and political struggles for land. Scholar-activism is a way of working that tries to change society by combining the best features of radical academic and political activist traditions, despite the many contradictions and challenges that this entails. The role pla...
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A Strengths-based Approach for International Development
Keren Winterford, Deborah Rhodes, Christopher Dureau
The practice of international development continues to change as more is understood about what works. A shift from a deficit or problem-solving approach to a strengths-based approach is a significant reframing for international development. A strengths-based approach aims to reveal assets, strengths...
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Progress You Can See
Including exclusive video recordings of workshop sessions with the author
We all measure progress toward our individual goals every day, whether we recognize it or not. This book provides a proven process for incorporating...
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Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards 3rd edition
The Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS) target livestock-owning communities affected by humanitarian crises. Drawing on international evidence-based best practice, LEGS supports practitioners to design and implement emergency responses that protect and rebuild livestock-base...