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...

Farmer First Revisited

Ian Scoones, John Thompson

Agriculture is an urgent global priority and farmers find themselves in the front line of some of the world's most pressing issues- climate change, globalization and food security. Twenty years ago, the Farmer First workshop held at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK, lau...

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.

Basic Beekeeping 1:6

Manual 1:6 looks at how to set up a good apiary

Fighting Poverty with Facts

Celia Reyes

Fighting Poverty with Facts: Community-based monitoring systems

Valuing the Environment: Economics for a Sustainable Future

David Glover

Valuing the Environment: Economics for a Sustainable Future

Toilets That Make Compost

Peter Morgan

Most People in rural Africa do not have access to safe toilets and their health and well-being suffers as a consequence. There is an urgent need for the construction of simple, low-cost, affordable toilets that are easy to build and maintain. Toilets that make compost provides practical examples of...

Urgency of Now

Duncan Green

We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words: too late; Martin Luther King Jr It;s time to take a new look at how to change the world. Many...

Health and Education For All

Building public services can transform the lives of millions of people - and, with political leadership, it is achievable in this generation. This punchy introduction to the issues provides case studies, real-life stories, background data, and critical analysis. It is a primer for campaigners, for...

Gender Equality, HIV, and AIDS

Sheila Aikman, Elaine Unterhalter, Tania Boler

The book shows that while gender inequalities in society generally, and particularly within the education sector, are driving aspects of the HIV epidemic, educational settings can be empowering and bring about change. It examines different expectations of what HIV education programmes and education...