Practical Action Publishing
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No Condition Permanent
The struggles and successes in achieving acceptance of new, small-scale technologies in Ghana.
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Normas mínimas para la recuperación económica 3rd Edition
Se ha producido un cambio importante en el campo de la ayuda humanitaria. Este cambio incluye, entre otros aspectos, una mayor concienciación en lo que respecta al papel fundamental de los mercados a la hora de prestar asistencia a las poblaciones afectadas para recuperarse de las crisis. De forma s...
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Normes minimales pour le relèvement économique 3rd Edition
Le domaine de l’assistance humanitaire a pris un virage important. Ce virage comprend une plus grande prise de conscience du rôle clé que jouent les marchés pour aider les populations affectées à se relever après un choc. Parallèlement aux efforts des services d’urgence pour répondre aux besoins élé...
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Nutrition Matters
The classic disaster model of an emergency, which assumes simple cause and effect between food shortages, malnutrition and death, no longer holds. The nature and perceptions of emergencies are changing. In fact most emergency situations are protracted, with obvious political dimensions, and the grea...
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Office Management for Co-operatives
This self-teaching text deals with the principle of office management, staffing and control, as well as the essential records, files, and accommodation required to run a co-operative efficiently. This is of use to the managers of both large and small co-operatives.
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Oil Processing
Offers guidance on the selection of appropriate equipment for small businesses, with case studies and technical information about each type of machine. For field workers training for food processing projects, and their trainers, and the non-specialist.
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One Hundred Innovations For Development
Technical problems require technical solutions that are innovative, simple, cheap, robust and easy to maintain. This book lists 100 winning inventions in the first International Inventors Award competition, organized in Stockholm.
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Opening the Marketplace to Small Enterprise
Addressing three fundamental issues - how to find financial support, how to improve products, and how to access markets - this book describes proven innovative answers to the obstacles facing small enterprise, together with entrepreneurial case studies.
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Operation and Maintenance of Small Irrigation Schemes
A companion volume to Small-scale Irrigation, this manual deals with the problems of operation and maintenance at sources of supply, the conveying of water, its distribution, and also advises on drainage, health and general management problems.
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Organic Cotton
Commercial organic cotton production is a new area of activity, and research and analysis is still at an early stage, but what written material exists is presented here with material commissioned specifically for this book. It is organized according to the stages in the 'cotton chain', from farmer t...