Living with Uncertainty

Ian Scoones

The last few years have seen a major rethinking of some of the hallowed assumptions of range ecology and range management practice. This book examines the management of policy implications of this new ecological thinking for pastoral development in dryland areas. With examples drawn from all over Af...

The Manual Screw Press for Small-Scale Oil Extraction

Kathryn Potts, Keith Machell

Manual oil extraction from peanuts or other soft oil-seeds can be a viable enterprise for small businesses. This book describes small-scale processes of oil-extraction for possible use in rural areas, as well as ways to market and distribute the oilcake.

Sericulture and Silk Production

Prabha Shekar, Martin Hardingham

This book describes the stages of mulberry bush growing, silkworm egg production, silkworm rearing, silk cocoon reeling and silk fabric production. Ideal for fieldworkers, development agencies and those starting small-scale manufacture or attempting to improve or extend manufacture (Published in the...

Storage

This book focuses on the storage of the staple commodities such as grains and root crops, but it also covers other major food groups such as oils, fish, fruit and vegetables. Useful reading for volunteers training for food processing projects, their trainers, and non-specialists already involved in...

Women's Roles in Technical Innovation

Women's indigenous technical knowledge and innovative solutions to problems are in evidence across the whole range of food cycle technologies. This book highlights the broad range of expertise that exists in rural areas. The book first gives a brief account of women's indigenous technical knowledge,...

Nutrition Matters

Helen Young, Susanne Jaspers

The classic disaster model of an emergency, which assumes simple cause and effect between food shortages, malnutrition and death, no longer holds. The nature and perceptions of emergencies are changing. In fact most emergency situations are protracted, with obvious political dimensions, and the grea...

Agroecology

Miguel A Altieri

This revised edition of a classic text re-emphasizes the importance of agroecology as the discipline that provides the basic ecological principles of how to study, design and manage agroecosystems. By separating myth from reality, Miguel Altieri extracts the key principles of sustainable agriculture...

Beyond Farmer First

Ian Scoones, John Thompson

The purpose of this book is to reveal how agricultural research and extension, far from being discrete, rational acts, are in fact part of a process of coming to terms with conflicting interests and viewpoints. By going beyond Farmer First, this theoretically informed perspective describes agricultu...

Animal Healthcare Training

John Young, Karen Stoufer, Narayan Ojha, Henk Peter Djikema

Sarah Jones

Presents the findings of a training project in Nepal which teaches basic animal health care techniques to Nepalese villagers. Ten years later an evaluation was conducted to determine whether there was a continuing need for the courses and to assess their effectiveness. This book describes the course...

Bangladesh

Geoffrey Wood

This book addresses, in the Bangladesh context, the fundamental processes of agrarian structural change and their gender implications, opportunities for wider participation by landless men and women in agricultural growth; the social implications of rural works and fish culture programmes; rural ins...