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...

Successful Distribution Models for Clean Cookstoves

Drawing on ten case studies in Africa, Asia and Latin America, an expert workshop and a literature review this study outlines key lessons for the establishment of last mile distribution chains for clean cookstoves.

Home Composting Systems

This technical brief describes about different home composting methods and use of home composting bins in detail.

Sandbar cropping

The document describes pumpkin production in sandbar with the support of SHIREE project namely “Pathways From Poverty Project” in four erosion prone districts of North-west Bangladesh.

Compost Bin Manufacturing

This technical brief describes the process of construction of home composting bins.

Tomato Farming

Tomato farming is one of the most popular farming practices that is being practiced by farmers around the world. This technical brief will help farmers on optimizing the production of tomatoes by giving attention at various stages of tomato farming. As tomato is one of the most popular crops that ca...

Carrot Farming

This technical brief describes how to optimise the farming of carrots with detail on the seasons, sowing, fertiliser and seeding rates.

Garlic farming

This technical brief describes how to optimise the farming of garlic with particular focus on weed control, irrigation and pests

Sustaining Local Food Webs

Ben Murphy

Local production provides food for more than 70 per cent of the world’s population and secures a livelihood for well over 2 billion. In local food webs the distance between producer and consumer is geographically and culturally short – with food and labour shared between families, neighbours, villag...

Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions

Philip McMichael

Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions extends the original conception of the food regime, formulated by Harriet Friedmann and Philip McMichael, detailing new dimensions of the succession of imperial, intensive and corporate food regimes. Developing the methodological contributions of food regime analy...