Building Small-Scale Water Harvesting Dams

North Darfur faces acute deficit in its water. The need for water has forced farmers to try and adapt their practices and conserve more water.

Controlling Crop Pests and Diseases

Rosalyn Rappaport

Controlling Crop Pests and Diseases covers pest and disease damage, causative agents, and methods of combatting them. As well as manual and cultural techniques, it describes the knapsack sprayer and its maintenance, showing that expensive chemicals are not necessary - the secrets of cheaply-availabl...

Resilient Family Farm

Gaye Burpee

The Resilient Family Farm is an interdisciplinary primer written for those who are involved in or who support rural development. Part I highlights the economic and ecological realities of the small family farm, while Part II examines the role of the development organization in supporting farm famili...

Restocking Pastoralists

Claire Heffernan

Restocking can be an effective means of poverty alleviation, which enables poor households to be incorporated back into the social and economic fabric of pastoralism. Nevertheless, at present the sustainability of projects is low. This book responds to the previous failures of restocking projects by...

Feeding the Market

Jon Hellin, Sophie Higman

"This is an accessible book which distils the ultimate question : how to reconcile the contradictory demands of the globalized market?" From the foreword by Jon Snow. The debate about the pros and cons of globalization has become increasingly polarized and yet the voices of the rural poor are seld...

Small-Scale Food Processing

Peter Fellows, Sue Azam-Ali

This completely revised and expanded second edition is the essential reference guide for all those involved in food processing on a small- or medium-scale. Extensively illustrated , clearly laid out and easy to use. A vital reference tool for business advisers and trainers, development workers and f...

Evaporative Cooling

Keeping produce fresh with refrigeration methods that require no external power.

Home Composting Bins

Composting is encouraged as a means of dealing with organic waste and can offer many benefits such as enhanced soil fertility.

Lime Juice - Small-scale Production

Making fresh limes into lime juice can alleviate the problem of getting them to the fruit market in a state where they still fetch a good price.

Semences du monde

Ronnie Vernooy

semences du monde. Lamélioration participative des plantes