Rural Building Course Volume 4

A training book for drawing techniques related to the subjects covered in the other volumes of the Rural Building Course, and general drawing training.

Sericulture and Silk Production

Prabha Shekar, Martin Hardingham

This book describes the stages of mulberry bush growing, silkworm egg production, silkworm rearing, silk cocoon reeling and silk fabric production. Ideal for fieldworkers, development agencies and those starting small-scale manufacture or attempting to improve or extend manufacture (Published in the...

Storage

This book focuses on the storage of the staple commodities such as grains and root crops, but it also covers other major food groups such as oils, fish, fruit and vegetables. Useful reading for volunteers training for food processing projects, their trainers, and non-specialists already involved in...

Affordable Water Supply and Sanitation

John Pickford, Peter Barker, Adrian Load, Tom Dijkstra

The editors consider the different aspects of, and the issues surrounding, affordable water supply and sanitation. They consider both 'software' aspects - people, communities, health, management and institutions - as well as technological considerations such as waste management.

Agents of Change

Georges Hénault, E Philip English

This book discusses national strategies for small enterprise, examines legal, regulatory, and tax reform, and makes proposals on how to improve competitiveness and access to credit. Agents of Change provides practical solutions and suggestions for real change, and will be of interest to scholars, st...

A Basic Guide to Evaluation for Development Workers

Frances Rubin

Focuses on the principles underlying evaluation, and deals with issues to be considered at the planning stage, the steps involved in carrying out evaluations and the importance of involving people in the evaluation process throughout.

A Bibliographical Survey of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations

Alaine Low

In many countries in Africa and Asia, rotating savings and credit associations underpin much of the economy. This survey covers the wide range of literature on these associations. Published with Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women.

Building with Bamboo

Jules Janssen

This revised handbook brings together the practical experiences of engineers in the field and of research programmes testing bamboo. The author shows how bamboo can be harvested, seasoned and jointed to form walls, doors and windows, roofs, floors, ceilings, roof trusses and bridges, and how to weav...

Caribbean Development Bank

Chandra Hardy

The Caribbean Development Bank has, over the last twenty-five years, focused its efforts on development of the Commonwealth Caribbean countries, and in particular, the seven small island states that form the Organization of East Caribbean States. It is small in comparison with the two development ba...

Conflict and Development

Mark Adams, Mark Bradbury

This paper was prepared as a background document for a workshop on Development in Conflict, held in Birmingham, UK, convened by ACORD, Birmingham University’s School of Public Policy, and Responding to Conflict. The growing incidence of armed conflicts in Africa and Eastern Europe, and their devasta...