SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries
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Women Feeding Cities
Alice Hovorka, Henk de Zeeuw, Mary Njenga
Poverty, food insecurity and malnutrition have become critical urban problems. Meeting this challenge, in many cities around the world, women play a crucial role in household food production, growing vegetables in gardens and vacant urban spaces, raising animals, and trading in fresh and cooked food...
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Understanding Climate Change Adaptation
Poor people bear the brunt of climate change since they live in those regions most affected by fluctuating temperatures, sea level rise, flooding and drought. Far from behaving as victims, however, they use the assets and resources at their disposal to adapt and survive. How can agencies assist loca...
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Recycling Used Lead Acid Batteries
Batteries are used whenever electrical energy is needed and are common around the world, but they can be harmful to the environment.
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Basic Beekeeping 1:6
Manual 1:6 looks at how to set up a good apiary
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Valuing the Environment: Economics for a Sustainable Future
Valuing the Environment: Economics for a Sustainable Future
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Fighting Poverty with Facts
Fighting Poverty with Facts: Community-based monitoring systems
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Development, Divinity and Dharma
Malcolm Harper, DSK Rao, Ashis Kumar Sahu
Faith-based institutions are getting involved in economic development programmes, including microfinance, and many foreign donors are looking to religious organizations for new ways to reach the poorest people. This book considers the work of a number of these, of different faiths, and asks what is...
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Expanding the Frontier in Rural Finance
Despite significant innovations in rural microfinance over the years, millions of people around the world still do not have access to financial services. Can linkages and strategic alliances between formal and informal financial institutions and private firms help resolve this problem? Drawing on 12...
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Rights-Based Approaches- Arabic
Case studies that provide compelling conclusions about the differences between rights-based and more ‘traditional’ projects, and their relative impacts. The failure to respect, protect, or fulfil human rights is a fundamental and leading obstacle to economic development and social justic...
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Les approches basees sur les droits
Les études de cas qui fournissent des conclusions convaincantes sur les différences entre les projets fondés sur les droits et plus «traditionnels», et leurs impacts relatifs. Le défaut de respecter, de protéger, ou de remplir droits de l'homme représente un obstacle fondamental et important pour le...