Yarn Preparation

John A Iredale

Almost all fabrics, whether woven or knitted, are produced from spun thread. However, this thread or yarn, produced by the spinning operation, either by a hand spinner using the simplest drop spindle or spinning wheel, or spun on the latest automated spinning frame, is rarely in a form suitable to b...

The Andes

Neil MacDonald

The Andes describes how the Andean people, in order to survive, are turning to their old traditions of mutual aid and are finding ways of working together which may lead them in new directions in their long quest for justice.

Born To Die in Medellin

Alonso Salazar

Colin Harding, Nick Caistor

An insight into urban violence in Medellin, Colombia's second city. Alsonso Salazar journeys into the jails, hospitals and shanty towns of Colombia's drug capital to interview teenage contract killers, their families, priests and self-defence vigilantes. He brings alive the world of Medellin's youth...

Fight for the Forest 2nd 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...

Peru: Time of Fear

Deborah Poole, Gerardo Rénique

Since 1980, Peru has been the scene of an escalating civil war. On the one hand, the Sendero Luminoso ("Shining Path") maoists determined to destroy existing society. On the other, the Peruvian military, acknowledged as South America's worst human rights violators. Caught in the middle, and dying in...

The Worth of Water

John Pickford

Brings together a series of short, highly illustrated introductions to many of the main technologies and processes in the field of village and community level water and sanitation, ranging from household water storage to public standposts.

Micro-hydro Power

Peter Fraenkel, Oliver Parish, Varis Bolkalders, Adam Harvey

Guides the reader systematically through the basic methods of hydrology and site survey and describes how to set up an appropriate scheme, with detailed technical information; also covers the essential economic considerations and maintenance requirements.

More Innovations For Development

Een Gillis

Profiles over 80 technical innovations in the field of development, covering five main subject areas: water, energy, forestry, farming and fishing.Information about appropriate technology available to developing countries is common. What is not often achieved is a flow of the actual technologies the...

Opening the Marketplace to Small Enterprise

Ton de Wilde

Addressing three fundamental issues - how to find financial support, how to improve products, and how to access markets - this book describes proven innovative answers to the obstacles facing small enterprise, together with entrepreneurial case studies.

Providing Food Security For All

Mohiuddin Alamgir, Poonam Arora

This book is by Mohiuddin Alamgir and Poonam Arora with an introduction by Idriss Jazairy. This book from IFAD is an in-depth user-friendly study of global food security, focused at the household level, which includes dozens of revealing figures, charts and tables. This introduction to global food s...