Tools for Agriculture
A guide to appropriate equipment for smallholder farmers
Tools for Agriculture is a guide to small-scale farming equipment which offers information to smallholder farmers, development workers, and manufacturers all over the world. This revised and updated fourth edition, appearing 25 years after ITDG's original published guide to appropriate equipment, "Tools for Progress", is the first to be produced from a computer database, compiled jointlyw ith GRET to enable systematic and continuous updating. Information has been selected from more than 1200 manufacturers in over 90 countries, and is presented here in ten sections for ease of reference. Each subject area - field power, soil preparation, crop protection - is introduced by a specialist who sets the range of available tools, implements and machines against a background of good farming practice, and the factors to weigh up when making a choice. The theme of effective choice is also considered in the main introduction along with an analysis of why some mechanization projects are more successful than others and how they could be improved. Also included are sources of further information and useful indexes of manufacturers and equipment.
Published: 1992
Pages: 248
eBook: 9781780443645
Paperback: 9781853391002
| Preface vii | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| PARTI: INTRODUCTION | |||
| 1. Some Basic Ingredients, Orlando Fals-Borda 3 | |||
| 2. The Theoretical Standpoint of PAR, | |||
| Muhammad Anisur Rahman 13 | |||
| 3. A Self-Review of PAR, Muhammad Anisur | |||
| Rahman and Orlando Fals-Borda 24 | |||
| PART II: VIVENCIAS | |||
| 4. Together Against the Computer: PAR and the | |||
| Struggle of Afro-Colombians for Public Service, | |||
| Gustavo I. de Roux 37 | |||
| 5. Young Laborers in Bogota: Breaking Authoritarian | |||
| Ramparts, Maria Cristina Salazar 54 | |||
| 6. Action and Participatory Research: A Case of | |||
| Peasant Organization, Vera Gianotten and | |||
| Ton de Wit 64 | |||
| 7. Glimpses of the "Other Africa," Muhammad | |||
| Anisur Rahman 84 | |||
| 8. People's Power in Zimbabwe, Sithembiso Nyoni 109 | |||
| vi Action and Knowledge | |||
| 9. Toward a Knowledge Democracy: Viewpoints on | |||
| Participatory Research in North America, | |||
| JohnGaventa 121 | |||
| PARTm: STEPS IN PRAXIOLOGY | |||
| 10. Stimulation of Self-Reliant Initiatives by | |||
| Sensitized Agents: Some Lessons from Practice, | |||
| S. Tilakaratna 135 | |||
| 11. Remaking Knowledge, Orlando Fals-Borda 146 | |||
| References and Further Reading 167 | |||
| About the Co-authors 181 |
Ian Carruthers
Ian Carruthers died in 1996. Ian Carruthers will be remembered for his major contributions to agrarian development in the world's poorer countries - particularly in irrigation economics - and for the unique external degrees in Agricultural Development
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