Timber Pole Construction

Lionel Jayanetti

The book offers a general introduction to timber poles as a construction material. Timber poles have served throughout history as a low-cost, environmentally friendly and structurally efficient building resource. As a result of the establishment of both commercial plantations and community forestry...

Urban Girls

Gary Barker, Felicia Knaul

This book offers practical approaches to improve and empower the lives of at-risk, low-income, urban-based girls and young women. It does this by presenting successful projects from around the world which clearly demonstrate what can be done on a broad range of fronts, and answers the two key questi...

Wheels of Trade

Jim Tanburn, Milena Hileman

High levels of subsidy have tended to create dependency and interventions, which run in parallel with the day-to-day workings of the small enterprise sector. This book presents the findings from the ILO's FIT programme which has worked to define and explore a different approach to the provision of B...

Women and Leadership

Caroline Sweetman

As a given, in no country do women participate in political leadership on a par with men. This collection of writings explores women's own strategies for developing or initiating leadership by women around the world. Women have created thousands of vibrant, visionary organisations of their own, yet...

Development, NGOs and Civil Society

Deborah Eade

Jenny Pearce

Experienced practitioners and academics provide an insightful look into the limitations of NGOs in claiming to represent and assist 'civil society'. Changes in approaches to development are situated within changes in global political economy. Relations between donors, states and NGOs are also consid...

Business Development Services

Jacob Levitsky

This book provides a wide review of experience of donor agencies in designing and implementing business development services for small and medium enterprises (SME). The papers, from the International Conference on Business Development Services, presented in this book assess the performance of the de...

Cultural and Spiritual Values of Biodiversity

Darrell Posey

Weaving together philosophical, historical, legal, scientific and personal viewpoints, this book gives a rich sample of the vast web which makes up our cultural, spiritual and social diversity. The volume highlights the central importance of cultural and spiritual values in the appreciation and pres...

Development and Management

Tina Wallace

Development is a complex process of negotiation over meanings, values and social goals within the sphere of public action and not merely a question of project-based interventions or of quantifiable inputs and outputs. This collection of papers draws on The Open University's path-breaking work in the...

Disappearing Peasantries?

Deborah Bryceson, Christobal Kay, Jos Mooij

This book points out how peasant labour redundancy can undermine rural welfare and political stability, and why academics and policy-makers of the twenty-first century cannot ignore the world's disappearing peasantries without endangering sustainable development and international security. The edito...

Encouraging Diversity

Conny Almekinders, Walter de Boef

This book presents around 80 briefly described cases which illuminate accumulated experience in plant genetic resources in both the South and the North. These experiences illustrate the apparent conflict between crop conservation and development, and contribute to the understanding of opportunities...