Sustainable Industrial Development

Marilyn Carr

Successful, established AT projects: forestry in Swaziland, Kenyan stoves, micro-hydro in Nepal, boats and cement plants in India, industries in Ghana and small grain production in Botswana and Zimbabwe. Can the benefits be sustained beyond the project?

Barefoot Revolution

Bertrand Schneider

Calls for a redirection of the economic strategy of the last twenty years. Identifies and measures the impact of an alternative approach through small-scale development projects run by non-governmental organizations.

The Copy Book

Bob Linney

Over 100 pages of drawings drawn and donated by the British Association of Illustrators. Covers food, water, health, shelter and work. For use by and of help to fieldworkers active in communication and education work, and to encourage local artists.

Cutting Edge Technologies and Microcomputer Applications for Developing Countries

Explains and assesses the uses of computers in record-keeping, accounting, education, CAD-CAM, expert systems and geographic information systems, and provides a methodology for attacking the problems of resource assessment, utilization and communication.

Design and Manufacture of Low-Cost Motorized Vehicles

For planners and manufacturers, this book contains detailed technical information on the design and manufacture of vehicles which can be produced locally and can compete with capital-intensive technologies originating from industrialized countries.

Running a Biogas Programme

David Fulford

Describes the designs and uses of biogas plants, with technical appendices, for domestic and community plants. Likely economic and social effects of biogas programmes are described from experience, and advice given in the problems of management.

Rural Credit

K P Padmanabhan

What is - and what should be - the role of rural credit in developing countries? The author steers the reader though this discussion and towards sound practical conclusions, using examples from India, Brazil, Cameroon, Malawi and the Philippines.

Rural Enterprise

Malcolm Harper, Shailendra Vyakarnam

The need for new forms of employment and economic diversification in rural areas has led to a growing interest in rural enterprise. This book is a collection of case studies, representing an overview of the problems and opportunities in this field.

Science, Technology and Development

Atul Wad

The relationship between scientific and technological change and development has altered with the changing character of developing countries and with advances in technology. High tech, appropriate technology, technology transfer and diffusion all serve to complicate further the already complex task...

Science and Technology Council

Norman Clark

This paper is based upon a consultancy report prepared for ITDG on behalf of the Government of Botswana. The author states the case for the establishment of a Science and Technology Council for Botswana and attempts to assess the wider implications for other developing countries.