Missing Links
Gender equity in science and technology for development
Gender differences in the field of science and technology have real consequences for the quality of women's lives and for sustainable human development. In this book gender specialists from around the world probe the topic of indigenous knowledge.
Published: 1995
Pages: 388
eBook: 9781780442839
Paperback: 9781853392894
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| INTRODUCTION 1 | |||
| Part I Latin America | |||
| Banana drying in Bolivia 17 | |||
| XIMENA MACHICAO BARBERY | |||
| Efficient domestic fuel use in Chile 34 | |||
| WALDO BUSTAMANTE GOMEZ | |||
| Building hope: self-management and construction 47 | |||
| MARCELA ARANCIBIA BALLESTER and ANA MARfA SALINAS BRIONES | |||
| Changing attitudes to health in the Dominican Republic 60 | |||
| LOURDES PERDOMO DE GOMEZ, MARIA DOLORES MATEO | |||
| MONTERO and RITA OTTE | |||
| Functional pottery in Nicaragua 82 | |||
| FRANgOISE ROMEO B. | |||
| Pork processing in Peru 100 | |||
| MERCEDES L6PEZ PINEDO | |||
| The preparation of Andean products in Peru 109 | |||
| MARfA ESTRELLA CANTO SANABRIA | |||
| Coping with a lack of electricity in marginal urban areas 122 | |||
| LOURDES PALAO YTURREGUI | |||
| Vegetable production units in Venezuela 134 | |||
| LUIS MIGUEL ABAD, IGNACIO ALZURU, LOKMAN GONZALEZ, ROSENDO | |||
| MORENO and JAVIER VAZQUEZ | |||
| Part II Africa | |||
| Shea butter extraction in Ghana 157 | |||
| YVONNE WALLACE-BRUCE | |||
| Pottery technology in Kenya 162 | |||
| JOSEPHINE A. MUTAGAYWA | |||
| Indigenous vegetables in Kenya 167 | |||
| WINNIE OGANA | |||
| Salt extraction in Sierra Leone 172 | |||
| BERNADETTE LAHAI | |||
| Fermented foods in Sudan 177 | |||
| HAMID A. DIRAR | |||
| Cassava processing in Uganda 181 | |||
| ERIOTH SIMWOGERERE | |||
| Nkejje fish in Lake Victoria 185 | |||
| IRENE FLORENCE WEKIYA | |||
| Survival skills of Tonga women in Zimbabwe 188 | |||
| RODGER MPANDE and NOMA MPOFU | |||
| Part III Asia | |||
| Land reclamation in Bangladesh 197 | |||
| AYESHA SHANJAHAN | |||
| Manual silk reeling in India 207 | |||
| PRABHA SHEKAR | |||
| Carpet making in Nepal 231 | |||
| PRABHAR THACKER | |||
| Coir workers in Sri Lanka 249 | |||
| KAMALA PEIRIS | |||
| Food processing in Sri Lanka 275 | |||
| PADMINI ABEYWARDENE | |||
| CONCLUSION 298 | |||
| REFERENCES 306 |
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