Development studies
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Stoves for People
Firewood shortages, dwindling forests, and the effects on the low income population of the developing world - these are some of the subjects addressed here, together with details of the introduction of fuel-efficient popular stoves for domestic use.
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Time To Listen
Laurence Taylor, Peter Jenkins
Fifty-five short case studies presenting situations faced by rural and urban communities in developing countries. The reader is invited to consider possible solutions, but no definitive answers are presented. For fieldworker training programmes.
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To the Hands of the Poor
Robert Chambers, N Saxena, Tushaar Shah
Confronts the paradox of mass poverty coexisting with vast resource potentials in rural India, such as the potentials from groundwater and trees, previously underestimated. Combines empirical research with practical political economy.
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Tools for Organic Farming
Large-scale capital-intensive farming is being increasingly questioned, in both developed and developing countries. This book lists small-scale and relatively inexpensive tools for organic farmers, wherever they are in the world.
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Traditional Cheesemaking
There are many remote areas scattered throughout the world where dairy farming is a well-established occupation. Large quantities of highgrade milk can be produced in such areas but the local market cannot always absorb them, especially during peak periods. Converting milk to cheese is one method of...
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Women and the Food Cycle
This collection of articles includes case studies of attempts to improve small-scale food processing, remembering that 'small is beautiful, but difficult'. Case studies cover grain and fruit processing, baking, beekeeping, and small-scale oil production.
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Fight for the Forest 1st Edition
"They would have to kill us all to destroy our movement and they can't. I don't get that cold feeling anymore. I am no longer afraid of dying."-Chico Mendes, November 1988 Chico Mendes, the charismatic founder of the Brazilian rubber tappers union, was murdered by a hired assassin on 22 December 198...
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Wealth Ranking in Smallholder Communities
A guide on how to carry out a wealth ranking exercise. The technique allows researchers to understand quickly the nature of wealth differences in a community and to determine the approximate wealth status of each community member.
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Cutting Edge Technologies and Microcomputer Applications for Developing Countries
Explains and assesses the uses of computers in record-keeping, accounting, education, CAD-CAM, expert systems and geographic information systems, and provides a methodology for attacking the problems of resource assessment, utilization and communication.
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Design and Manufacture of Low-Cost Motorized Vehicles
For planners and manufacturers, this book contains detailed technical information on the design and manufacture of vehicles which can be produced locally and can compete with capital-intensive technologies originating from industrialized countries.