Stoves for Institutional Kitchens

Institutional stoves are used where large amounts of food need to be cooked. Typical examples are schools, hospitals, prisons and refugee camps.

Biogas

Biogas is a fuel used for cooking and lighting, made from dung and other organic waste.

Communities, Livelihoods, and Natural Resources

Stephen Tyler

This book presents cases from some of the poorest parts of Asia to illustrate how local innovations in participatory natural resource management can strengthen livelihoods, build capacity for local governance, and spark policy change. The book synthesizes results from a seven-year programme of appli...

Just One Planet

Mark Smith

The impacts of climate change are being felt all around the world and as they become more damaging and widespread, it is the 2.7 billion people in the world who live on less than $2 a day who will be hit first and hardest. The carbon emissions fuelling the lifestyles of people in the North are causi...

Small-scale Mining, Rural Subsistence, and Poverty in West Africa

Gavin Hilson

This book aims to facilitate a radical change in the way in which policies and support services are implemented for ASM by underscoring the importance of improving understanding of the industry’s population and industry dynamics. Focusing upon the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS),...

Solar Cooking and Health

Solar cookers are devices that use the energy of solar radiation to cook food. In the rural areas of most developing countries, cooking is usually done on open fires fuelled by wood, but solar cookers are a cleaner and healthier option.

Floating Gardens in Bangladesh

A floating garden is built using aquatic weeds as a base on which vegetables can be grown.

Comanagement of Natural Resources

Stephen Tyler

Comanagement of Natural Resources: Local Learning for Poverty Reduction

Turning off the Lights

Stephen Thomas, Iromi Ruana Rajepakse

The World Trade Organization's General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) could threaten services and projects specifically aimed at or managed by poor communities. This book explains the nature of that threat, taking community-run electricity schemes in Sri Lanka as an example. It will help to g...

Africa - Up in Smoke?

Andrew Simms

Copies of the Original 2005 Report and the 2006 Update Report from the Working Group on Climate Change and Development. This Report finds that concerns about the effects of climate change on rural African societies are more than justified. Climate change is happening, and it is affecting livelihoods...