SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries
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Pickles of Bangladesh
This booklet was the result of a workshop run by the Ahsania Mission. The objective of the workshop was to produce adult literacy booklets that covered practical subjects. This booklet covers how to set up a small business making pickles and drew on the work of Intermediate Technology Bangladesh.
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A Guide to Appropriate Technology Institutions
Through the example of the analysis of forest energy technology development the author illustrates the importance of user participation in developing technologies, and discusses the management of technological change.
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Guidelines for Design, Production and Testing of Animal-Drawn Carts
Compiled on behalf of the Animal Traction Network for Eastern and Southern Africa (ATNESA) as a resource book on animal-drawn carts, these guidelines cover all aspects of their design, production and marketing. Full details - with many three dimensional drawings - are given of the construction of a...
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Guidelines for Global Issues in Technology
This booklet provides an overview of appropriate technology and global development issues. The first part addresses issues from a humanistic perspective. The second part focuses on sustainability, appropriate technology, technology transfer, the importance of indigenous knowledge, women and technolo...
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Improving Goat Production in the Tropics
Written for both livestock specialists and for development workers who have not been formally trained in animal production, this book explains the theory of goat-keeping using practical, step-by-step guidelines. It also takes into account the social, economic and organizational context in which the...
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Indigenous Organizations and Development
Indigenous organizations are local-level institutions with a community base, such as women's groups, ethnic associations, traditional religious groups, and a wide variety of other social groups.
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Integrated Urban Infrastructure Development in Asia
This book brings together a range of papers on innovative approaches to integrated urban infrastructure provision in Asian countries. Contributors include policy-makers, professionals and planners from across Asia. The models and practices described in the book comprise a major contribution to advan...
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Learning from Gal Oya
This first paperback edition recounts the drama of a remarkably successful experiment that introduced farmer organization for self-managed development in the largest and most run-down conflict-ridden irrigation system in Sri Lanka and now updates the story to record the author's picture of Gal Oya i...
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The Life Industry
There are many contentious issues surrounding biodiversity and different priorities for the many stakeholders involved. This book presents some of the arguments from the leading experts on the issues as well as reflecting the collective learning and debate from grassroots NGOs, journalists, industri...
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Road Maintenance and Regravelling (ROMAR) Using Labour-Based Methods
Written for the owners or managers of small construction businesses, the ROMAR books provide both the management and technical advice needed in order to make a success of routine maintenance and regravelling as a business activity. The handbook and workbook can be used together by reading the chapte...