SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries
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Looking after Our Land
'Desertification' is not the creation of a desert - or very rarely! It is a process of resource degradation. Helping people to acquire the tools, knowledge and confidence the need to reverse this process is one of the major challenges facing development workers in arid and semi-arid Africa. Soil con...
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Children Actively Learning
This text relates the introduction of child-centred and discovery methods of education into the primary education system of Bhutan since 1986. It offers lessons to those in other small countries in the developing world who are embarking on curricular and methodological reform of formal education for...
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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...
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Renewable Energy Technologies
L.A. Kristoferson, V Bokalders
A detailed survey of the main areas of bio-energy and biomass, solar energy and hydro, wind and water power. The authors address the advantages and disadvantages of renewable energies, their appropriateness, and their socio-economic implications.
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Shelter, Settlements, Policy and the Poor
Human settlement planning involves a multi-disciplinary approach incorporating not only technical questions of housing but also problems of services, health, management and economics.
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Skills For Life
Examines the question of how developing countries can mobilize and absorb the energies and industry of future generations by providing them with opportunities for productive work, and examines the appropriateness of vocational training schemes. Includes case studies from Nigeria, Trinidad and Malawi...
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Small-Scale Production
The bleak employment opportunities faced in many developing countries suggest a need for a large contribution by small-scale production units, looked at in this collection of case studies which represent six important dimensions in development contexts.
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Social Survey Methods
Written for planners and managers in development and relief agencies, Oxfam Development Guidelines draw on Oxfams experience to review current thinking on theory and practice in a range of development and relief fields. Social Survey Methods is a readable guide to selecting and implementing an appro...
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Solar Photovoltaic Products
A buyer's guide to systems for water-pumping and treatment, lighting, refrigeration, communications, and other applications. . Small solar powered devices are in use in developing countries for lighting, vaccine refrigeration, water pumping and other important development products, but little inform...
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Stove Maker, Stove User
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...