Understanding Climate Change Adaptation

Jonathan Ensor, Rachel Berger

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...

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

Valuing the Environment: Economics for a Sustainable Future

David Glover

Valuing the Environment: Economics for a Sustainable Future

Fighting Poverty with Facts

Celia Reyes

Fighting Poverty with Facts: Community-based monitoring systems

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...

Expanding the Frontier in Rural Finance

Maria Pagura

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...

For a Safer Tomorrow

Ed Cairns

Since the end of the Cold War, the number of armed conflicts in the world has fallen. But is this trend now about to be reversed? Climate change, poverty and inequality, and the wider availability of weapons all add to the risk of conflicts increasing. In 1949, the Geneva Conventions enshrined peopl...