The Manual Screw Press for Small-Scale Oil Extraction

Kathryn Potts, Keith Machell

Manual oil extraction from peanuts or other soft oil-seeds can be a viable enterprise for small businesses. This book describes small-scale processes of oil-extraction for possible use in rural areas, as well as ways to market and distribute the oilcake.

Missing Links

Gender differences in the field of science and technology have real consequences for the quality of women's lives and for sustainable human development. In this book gender specialists from around the world probe the topic of indigenous knowledge.

The New Forester

Berry van Gelder, Phil O'Keefe

Traditionally, subsistence economies in developing countries are biomass economies. Housing itself, energy, furniture and utensils are still biomass products. The yield of trees and shrubs provides thatch, fodder and a host of other products which serve each family household. Deforestation is an ero...

North-South Co-operation

Caroline Sweetman

This book looks at co-operation for development: between North, South, and East; women's organizations and funding agencies; development practitioners, academics, and civil society; politicians and economists; and men and women. Currently the world is in a state of economic and political crisis, of...

The Oxfam Handbook of Development and Relief

Deborah Eade

This handbook is the product of the experience of Oxfam UK and Ireland in its work in over 70 countries around the world. It offers an expression of Oxfam's fundamental principles: that all the people have the right to an equitable share in the world's resources, and the right to make decisions abou...

The Oxfam Poverty Report

Kevin Watkins

The UN Charter of 1945 and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights set out a moral framework for a system of rights and obligations upon which the new world order was to be built. Yet, over 50 years on, the basic rights enshrined in the Charter are being violated all over the world. Only the privi...

Power, Process and Participation

Rachel Slocum, Lori Wichhart, Diana Rocheleau, Barbara Thomas-Slayter

This book focuses on participatory capacity-building in ways that address the practical needs and strategic interests of the disadvantaged and disempowered - it examines how differences in class, ethnicity, race, caste, religion, age and gender lead to the 'politics of exclusion'. It offers innovati...

Power and Participatory Development

Nici Nelson

This book explores the power dimensions of participatory development and research, and examines what shifts in power within communities and institutions are needed for participatory ideas to be effective.

Developing Building for Safety Programmes

Yasemin Aysan, Andrew Clayton, Alistair Cory, Ian Davis

Developing Building for Safety Programmes summarizes the basic principles to be considered in the planning and implementation of community-based building improvement programmes for small dwellings in disaster-prone areas. Including case studies illustrating suggestions made. These guidelines for saf...

Disaster Mitigation, Preparedness and Response

David Sanderson

Disaster Mitigation, Preparedness and Response brings together, for the first time, information on the activity of British individuals and organizations working in disaster mitigation, preparedness and response. Over 170 returned questionnaires, interviews, reviews and research form the basis of thi...