Living with Wildlife

Stuart Coupe, Viv Lewis, Zadoc Ogutu, Cathy Watson

Conflicts over land use exist all over the world. In semi-arid parts of Africa, for example, pastoralists have by no means the same interests as settled farmers, lodge/safari company operators and tourists. Moreover, these conflicts of interest are likely to intensify if rural poverty and dependency...

Setting up a Food Drying Business

Fabrice Thuillier

The number of food drying businesses in developing countries is increasing and the impact that they can have on socio-economic development is marked. Small-scale food processing enterprises add value to local production by supplying local and export markets with dried products. Before embarking on s...

Liberalization of Seed Supply in Sri Lanka

This study discusses the different implication of the liberalizations of seed industry in Sri Lanka and  suggests possible recommendations for improvements of the existing policies  on the basis of primary and secondary findings of the study.

Siembra de soluciones Tomo 2

The Crucible II Group

Siembra de soluciones: Tomo 2. Opciones para leyes nacionales de control sobre recursos genéticos e innovaciones biológicas

Cover Crops in Smallholder Agriculture

Simon Anderson

Lessons learned in Latin America is about the use and dissemination of cover crops in different agreoecosystems need to be made more widely available not only to Spanish speaking, but also Anglophone regions. This publication aims to inform a wide range of actors involved in rural development projec...

Ethnoveterinary Medicine

Marina Martin

This volume contains some 700 abstracts from around the world relating to peoples animal healthcare, otherwise known as ethnoveterinary medicine. Each abstract, many of the substantial, contains where possible detail of the livestocks disease, the name of the treatment, its method of preparation and...

A Field Manual of Camel Diseases

Ilse Köhler-Rollefson, Evelyn Mathias, Paul Mundy

The one-humped camel, or dromedary, is one of the world's hardiest domesticated animals. A vital source of transport, meat, milk and income for pastoralists in the Sahel, East Africa, the Middle East and South Asia, the camel can carry heavy loads for days in some of the world's most hostile conditi...

Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

Stephen Devereux, Simon Maxwell

Sub-Saharan Africa's persistent food insecurity and vulnerability to famine reflects failures of understanding as much as failures of interventions. Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa aims to contribute towards an improved understanding for more effective food security policy. This book brings toge...

Perspectives on Pastoral Development

Isobel Birch

An objective account of a major Oxfam initiative: the Wajir Pastoral Development Project in north-east Kenya, with its distinctive emphasis on community participation. It explains how marginalized groups are developing their own pastoral associations to represent their interests, and Oxfam's role in...

Managing Small-Scale Fisheries

Fikret Berkes

Managing Small-Scale Fisheries: Alternative directions and methods