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.

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.

Action and Knowledge

Orlando Fals-Borda

Muhammad Anisur Rahman

Technical problems require technical solutions that are innovative, simple, cheap, robust and easy to maintain. This book lists 100 winning inventions in the first International Inventors Award competition, organized in Stockholm.

Cereal Banks - At Your Service?

Abdou Salam Fall

Food security is one of the major concerns of people living in sub-Saharan Africa. In recent years, cereal banks have become a widespread and popular response to the problem. This book presents, in the form of a story, some of the main questions and issues surrounding the setting up and running of a...

Changing Perceptions

Tina Wallace, Candida Marsh

Women's needs and abilities are often ignored by development planners; even 'women's projects' often reflect gender stereotypes which maintain a prejudicial situation. These collected articles give an overview of many aspects of gender and development.

Stove Maker, Stove User

Val Rea, Mike Martin

Designed for use within the UK National Curriculum, this resource pack looks at the lack of adequate energy supplies for rural people in Sri Lanka through a case study that examines the requirements of a family of potters. Includes teachers' notes and slide sets. "Stove Maker, Stove User" is the sec...

To Cure All Hunger

Simon Maxwell

Few countries face as grim a prospect of food insecurity as the Sudan - bankrupt, at civil war, and ravaged by drought. To Cure All Hunger looks at the scope and the content of appropriate interventions, growth, income, and command over food security. A close study of the causes, dimensions and cons...

Try Drying It!

Barrie Axtell

Shows how improving on the traditional techniques of drying by sun and air can provide income-generating activities for groups in the developing world. Examples from Peru, Colombia and Bangladesh; with detailed technical appendices.

Village Animal Healthcare

Barbara Grandin

In many developing countries access to veterinary services is a particular problem in rural areas, and poor farmers suffer significant losses due to preventable livestock diseases. This book describes three Intermediate Technology programmes built from local knowledge.