Barefoot Book

Marilyn Carr

Barefoot Book explores the potential of `intermediate' services for the rural poor, using examples in the fields of health care, law, administration, economics, banking, management, craft, mechanics, building and geology.

Cane Sugar

Raphael Kaplinsky

Assessing the choice of technology for small scale sugar production, and its economic and social viability, this book will interest those responsible for sugar development, industry decision makers, non-governmental organizations, and appropriate technology organizations. Proceeding of a joint ITDG/...

Community Water Development

Charles Kerr

The UN Water Decade has been the catalyst for much research and development in water-related fields, and one result of the Decade has been improved dissemination of the water technologies being developed. Community Water Development presents some of the best material from leading researchers and pr...

Country Boats of Bangladesh

Eirik Jansen, Anthony Dolman, Alf Morten Jerve, R Rahman

Discusses decision-making in inland water transport, focusing on official policies towards country boats. Describes the river system of Bangladesh and the constraints imposed by natural conditions and the operational environment.

Gypsum Plaster

Andrew Coburn, Eric Dudley, Robin Spence

An outline of the manufacturing techniques available for this well-proven but underutilized binding material, with a guide to uses, properties and limitations.

Farmer First

Robert Chambers, Arnold Pacey, Lori Ann Thrupp

Farmer First presents a new paradigm and methods for agricultural research. Starting with farmers’ own capacity for innovation, contributors from the agricultural and social sciences, ecology, economics and geography make the case for a farmer-first mode to complement the traditional transfer of tec...

Refugee Enterprise

Chris Rolfe, Clare Rolfe, Malcolm Harper

Refugee Enterprise is concerned with income-generating projects for refugees from poor countries and now in poor host countries, such as Ethiopian refugees in Somalia or Afghan refugees in Pakistan. Many of these refugees cannot return home. They are neither allowed to become local citizens, nor can...

Roads and Resources

Geoff Edmonds

This book is concerned with appropriate construction technology in the building and maintenance of roads. It is one of a series resulting from the World Employment Programme of the ILO. By drawing upon the detailed studies that have been carried out by the ILO and experience from recently execute...

Rural Transport Services

Henri Beenhakker

For policymakers and planners, it draws on a wide range of sources, developing methodologies for cost evaluation of spot improvements, stage construction of water crossings, and analysis of the organizational framework for decentralized road maintenance.

Fight for the Forest 1st Edition

Chico Mendez, Tony Gross

Chris Whitehouse

"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...