Understanding Equid Welfare Issues

A comprehensive technical guide to understanding and dealing with equid welfare and health issues from The Brooke

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...

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...

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...

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...

Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development

Ian Scoones

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...

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.

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.

Carrot Farming

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