Sanitation in Humanitarian Settings

R.A Reed

In an emergency the collection, treatment and disposal/reuse of human waste is critical to the health, wellbeing and environment of affected populations. Addressing this is difficult and complex requiring an understanding of the technical, social, institutional, political and environmental issues af...

African Perspectives on Agroecology

Rachel Wynberg

Seed embodies life, power, and culture. From Africa’s deserts and drylands to its mighty river systems and tropical forests, from those growing a multiplicity of grains, legumes, and vegetables, to others struggling to produce enough to feed their families, seed provides the mainstay for the contine...

Migración forzada, derechos humanos y salud sexual y reproductiva

Natalia Cintra, David Owen, Pia Riggirozzi

Centrado en el desplazamiento forzado de mujeres y niñas venezolanas, este libro examina la dimensión de género y su impacto en el desplazamiento forzado y las formas en las cuales las fallas de los regímenes de protección y su insensibilidad al carácter de género afectan a las mujeres y niñas migra...

Fertile Ground

Steve Brescia

There are about 2.5 billion people in the world, on 500 million farms, involved with smallholder family agriculture and food production. Their creative capacity to farm productively and sustainably with nature, instead of against it, is perhaps the most powerful force that can be unleashed to overco...

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...

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...

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...

Contested Global Governance Space and Transnational Agrarian Movements

Mauro Conti

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...

Gender and Resilience in the City

Hanna Ruszczyk

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...

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...