Making Planning Work

Cliff Hague, Patrick Wakely, Julie Crespin, Chris Jasko

The scale, rate, and even the nature of urban development has changed dramatically in recent times. The manifestations – rapid urbanization and the urbanization of poverty, increased social diversity, industrial restructuring, more environmentally-friendly suburbs – differ globally, but South and No...

Pastoral Livestock Marketing in Eastern Africa

John McPeak, Peter Little

An in-depth, evidence-based investigation of livestock marketing in Eastern Africa which approaches the issues from a variety of disciplinary perspectives including anthropology, economics, geography, and rangeland ecology. Editors John G. McPeak and Peter D. Little present current findings on ho...

Cassava Processing

This fact sheet describes uses of cassava - a staple crop of particular importance in South America and Africa - how to process it, harvest it and store it.

How to use the DRYIT Semi-continuous Tray Dryer

A comprehensive guide on how to use this tray dryer - you can dry herbs, fruit, vegetables, and even colouring materials and textiles.

Small-scale Oilseed Processing

Discusses refining oilseed on a small-scale; topics include raw materials, health and safety and processing.

A Farmers' Jury

Stuart Coupe, Jon Hellin, Absolom Masendeke, Elijah Rusike

This ITDG Working Paper analyses the experience of a farmers' jury in Zimbabwe. Representatives of poor farmers mapped out their vision for the future of agriculture in their country after hearing from policy makers and technical experts of every shade of opinion. The ITDG Working Papers are designe...

Food Sovereignty

Michael Windfuhr, Jennie Jonsén

Food Sovereignty is the new policy framework proposition for the governance of food and agriculture. It embraces policies not only for localising the control of production and markets, but also for the Right to Food, people’s access to and control over land, water and genetic resources, and for pro...

Participatory Livestock Research

Czech Conroy

This book is the first to offer an introduction to participatory research for livestock development. Despite the attention paid to participatory research methodologies in other areas of agricultural development, participatory livestock work has been relatively neglected despite the evident relevance...

Saving Lives and Livelihoods

Louise Tunbridge

In southern Sudan, the problems of disease in the economically and culturally important area of cattle rearing have been faced for centuries. Now along with the prospect of the end of the long-running war in the region, comes also the vital news of the likely eradication of rinderpest (also called...

Dead-Level Contours

This brief describes the use of contours and shows how to construct the Manama in-field rainwater harvesting storage facility.