Agriculture and Food
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What is animal welfare?
Animal welfare refers to the physical and emotional state that is impacted by the environment in which the animal lives and works, human attitudes and practices, and resources available to it. Welfare is an everchanging state in which all of these factors can and will cause welfare to fluctuate betw...
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Understanding Equid Welfare Issues
A comprehensive technical guide to understanding and dealing with equid welfare and health issues from The Brooke
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Farmer Research Groups
Dawit Alemu, Yoshiaki Nishikawa, Kiyoshi Shiratori, Taku Seo
It has long been recognized that agricultural research should involve the farmers themselves. Participatory agricultural research methods have been developed to help farmers and researchers to identify the most appropriate technologies and techniques for a particular area. However, mainstreaming thi...
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Agrarian Change, Migration and Development
Henry Veltmeyer, Raúl Delgado Wise
The focus and concern of Agrarian Change, Migration and Development is the problem of labour migraton. Veltmeyer and Wise explore the dynamics and development implications of the migration processes set in motion by the capitalist mode of production. The dynamics of these processes are both internat...
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Political Dynamics of Transnational Agrarian Movements
Marc Edelman, Saturnino M. Borras, Jr.
Transnational agrarian movements (TAMs) are organizations, networks, coalitions and solidarity linkages of farmers, peasants, pastoralists and their allies that cross national boundaries and seek to influence national and global policies. Today’s TAMs have contributed to reframing a wide range of de...
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Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development
The message of Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development is clear: livelihoods approaches are an essential lens on questions of rural development, but these need to be situated in a better understanding of political economy. The book looks at the role of social institutions and the politics of p...
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Scaling up Agroecology
Chris Henderson, Jonathan Casey
To eradicate extreme poverty means focusing on the 500 million smallholders so they can reliably generate more food and income from their agricultural activities. This paper uses the three pillars of Technology Justice (access, local innovation, and sustainable use of technologies) to assess the ran...
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Carrot Farming
This technical brief describes how to optimise the farming of carrots with detail on the seasons, sowing, fertiliser and seeding rates.
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Home Composting Systems
This technical brief describes about different home composting methods and use of home composting bins in detail.
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Compost Bin Manufacturing
This technical brief describes the process of construction of home composting bins.