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(Book) Poor People's Energy Outlook 2012
Access to energy is essential for poor people to earn a decent living, to work their way out of the vicious cycle of poverty and subsistence. Whether you earn off the land, from a small business, through a job in a larger enterprise or through the supply of energy itself, energy is important. Poor P...
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(Book) Vermicomposting: A promising technology to turn kitchen waste to organic compost
Vermicomposting is a process of composting that uses earthworm to convert organic waste into humus-like high-quality compost.This technique of converting organic waste into compost manure not only boosts organic production but also helps to effectively manage the household and urban organic waste.
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(Book) Best Practice in Solid Waste Management
This guide demonstrates successful waste management in Nepal.
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(Book) Príručka Sphere
Príručka Sphere predstavuje zásadový prístup ku kvalite a zodpovednosti v oblasti humanitárnej pomoci. Je praktickým prejavom kľúčového presvedčenia organizácie Sphere, že ľudia postihnutí katastrofou alebo konfliktom majú právo na dôstojný život a právo na humanitárnu pomoc. Základným kameňom prír...
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(Book) Lime Juice - Small-scale Production
Making fresh limes into lime juice can alleviate the problem of getting them to the fruit market in a state where they still fetch a good price.
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(Book) Handbook on Community-Led Total Sanitation
This handbook focuses on igniting a change in sanitation behaviour rather than constructing toilets. It is an attempt to bring together experience, diversified practice and local innovations from different countries and many sources.
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(Book) Smallholder Agriculture and Market Participation
Small-scale agriculture is the main livelihood of the majority of the world’s rural poor. Smallholder farmers in the global South play a crucial role in maintaining biodiversity, as well as contributing to food security in their countries. However, they need to be connected to markets to see sustain...
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(Book) From Risk to Resilience
In 2011 Practical Action published From Vulnerability to Resilience: A Framework for Analysis and Action to Build Community Resilience. This was one of the first attempts by a development NGO to operationalize resilience and it provided project workers with a framework to apply the resilience concep...
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(Book) Diseases and Pests that affect onion cultivation and their management
This technical brief explains about the diseases and pests that affect onion farming and their management and prevention.
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(Book) Construction Manual for Earthquake-Resistant Houses Built of Earth
The solutions proposed in this manual concentrate on low-cost single-story houses, built from earth in rural areas of earthquake-prone zones. They are based on research projects carried out at the Forschungslabor für Experimentelles Bauen (Building Research Laboratory) of the University of Kassel,...
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(Book) A New Weave of Power, People and Politics Arabic
Lisa VeneKlasen, Valerie Miller
This field manual provides a well-tested approach for promoting citizen participation. It breaks down the traditional boxes separating human rights, rule of law, development, and governance, and reconnects them in order to create an integrated approach to rights-based political empowerment. A New We...
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(Book) Speculative Harvests
Jennifer Clapp, S. Ryan Isakson
In Speculative Harvests, Clapp and Isakson investigate the evolving relationship between the agrifood and financial sectors, paying particular attention to how the contemporary process of financialization is reshaping agrarian development and food systems. Understood as the growing prevalence of fin...
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(Book) Das Sphere Handbuch
Das Sphere-Handbuch stellt einen grundsatzbasierten Ansatz für Qualität und Verantwortlichkeit in der humanitären Hilfe dar. Es beinhaltet eine praktische Anwendung der Grundüberzeugung von Sphere, dass alle von einer Katastrophe oder einem Konflikt betroffenen Menschen ein Recht auf ein Leben in Wü...
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(Book) Managing for Sustainable Development Impact
The development landscape has changed significantly over the last few decades, becoming increasingly complex. Many of the issues we face today such as climate change, poverty and conflict, call for a new way of doing business. This guide shows leaders and development practitioners how to navigate th...
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(Book) Technology Justice and Faecal Sludge Management
While globally rates of access to improved sanitation remain woefully low, Bangladesh stands out as a country that has made remarkable progress in eliminating the scourge of open defecation. However, across the country’s growing urban centres, this success has created a so-called ‘second-generation’...
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(Book) Panorama energético de los pobres 2016
¿Qué necesidades energéticas señalan los pobres de los países en desarrollo como las más acuciantes? ¿Iluminación eléctrica? ¿Cocinas no contaminantes y modernas? ¿Energía para los centros de salud? Aprovechando la información obtenida en las exhaustivas consultas realizadas a las comunidades que vi...
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(Book) Developing Groundwater
Alan MacDonald, Jeff Davies, Roger Calow, John Chilton
In many rural areas, groundwater is the only feasible way of providing safe, reliable water supplies. However, developing groundwater is not always straightforward. To meet the targets set out in the Millennium Development Goals, more attention needs to be paid to finding and developing groundwater...
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(Book) 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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(Book) Heavenly Food
This book contains a collection of jack fruit processing techniques which help us to enjoy jack dishes in various forms. Besides it also help us to understand the lives of many people.
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(Book) Poor People's Energy Outlook 2018
Energy access for all has been enshrined in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (SDG7) and the Paris Agreement on climate change and there is now widespread acceptance of the great wellbeing and development benefits energy access unlocks. Nevertheless, a lack of understanding about the best...