Seeds that Give

Ronnie Vernooy

Seeds that Give: Participatory plant breeding

Community-based Animal Healthcare

Andy Catley, Stephen Blakeway, Tim Leyland

Community based approaches to improving animal health have been evolving for many years. Numerous organisations and institutions, including government veterinary services, are now beginning to implement community-based animal health projects in order to provide basic veterinary services in rural are...

Cultivating Biodiversity

Harold Brookfield

The United Nations University project on People, Land Management and Environmental Change (PLEC) has used the traditional skills of smallholder farmers - for cultivating their crops, managing the soil, water and vegetation and maintaining their livelihoods in difficult circumstances - to produce thi...

Drying Food for Profit

Barrie Axtell

This book has been written for existing and prospective entrepreneurs who wish to produce dry foods commercially at small and medium scale. Great effort has been made to use simple language but at the same time to examine all relevant technical aspects.

Hands On Food, Water and Finance

Emma Judge

Appropriate 'green' technologies are sometimes regarded as a second-rate solution but the series Practical Innovations for a Sustainable World challenges this concept by presenting real-life examples of successful appropriate technology stories from Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America. All of the...

Horse Healthcare

David Hadrill

This manual is designed for those who care for working horses but who may have little or no access to professional veterinary help. By guiding readers to the appropriate action to take when caring for a sick animal, this book will help alleviate the suffering of horses, donkeys and mules and thereby...

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