Beating Hunger, The Chivi Experience

Kuda Murwira

This book describes a project among small-scale farmers in the drought-prone and arid communal lands of Zimbabwe which, within the broad remit of promoting food security, helped the farmers identify their problems and choose their own solutions to them. Central to the project was the attention paid...

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...

Baking for Profit

George Bathie

Most communities have the capacity to support a well-run bakery operation. With good planning and access to raw materials and markets, setting up a bakery can represent an excellent enterprise opportunity. Baking for Profit provides the information that a small entrepreneur needs to address when set...

Natural Pesticides - Chilli pepper

The insecticidal properties of chilli pepper are highest in the ripe fruit especially in the skin and seed. Chillis act as a stomach poison, antifeedant and repellent to a number of pests.

Armer les villes contre la faim

IDRC

Armer les villes contre la faim

Seeding Solutions Volume 1

The Crucible II Group

Seeding Solutions: Volume 1. Policy options for genetic resources. People, Plants, and Patents revisited

Biological and Cultural Diversity

Gordon Prain, Sam Fujisaka, D Michael Warren

Much recent 'scientific' agricultural research has failed to build upon the valuable experiences and lessons learnt from farmers, in combating problems faced in agriculture. Biological and Cultural Diversity presents, for the first time, cases of indigenous experimentation as well as the benefits in...

Farmers' Seed Production

Conny Almekinders, Niels Louwaars

This handbook covers a whole range of issues relating to local seed supply systems, including participatory plant breeding, and both technical and practical information on seed production and variety maintenance. It suggests new approaches and methods to support on-farm seed production by small-scal...

Fertile Ground

Fiona Hinchcliffe, John Thompson, Jules Pretty, Irene Guijt, Parmesh Shah

Fertile Ground addresses presents the findings of the first formal study and in-depth research into the impacts of participatory watershed management in a wider range of agroecological and socioeconomic settings in Africa, Asia, Australia and Latin America. The Sustainable Agricultural and Rural Liv...