This is a new and up-to-date edition of the farming section in the hugely popular "People's Workbook". Originally written for the millions of SouthernAfrica's small farmers who help themselves by growing their own vegetables or keeping their own chickens and a few goats, this book will also help any small farmer or small-holder in developing countries to help themselves.This book is easy to read and easy to use, with hundreds of helpful illustrations. It includes interviews with small farmers from all over Southern Africa, as well as a new chapter on sustainable agriculture - on keeping the land healthy and fertile so that it can go on producing for the generations to come.

People's Farming Workbook

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Practical Action

Agriculture and Natural Resources

Amerina, Penelope

Science & Math

This comprehensive directory will provide managers with up-to-date information on thousands of courses in 15 countries in East and Southern Africa, and gives practical advice on how to manage training and consultancy.The directory is divided into country sections, with a full index of course subjects at the back of the directory for ease of reference. Each entry contains a list of course available, course content, costs, who the course is designed for and full contact details of the organization. Transform is a network of African Training Organizations and a UK Transform Unit. The directory builds on their practical experiences over the last five years.

The Transform Directory: Directory of Management Training and Consultancy Organizations for Development Agencies in East and Southern Africa

Business & Money

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Designed to make qualitative research skills accessible to practitioners with little or no previous training in social sciences, the handbook describes methods of gathering, reviewing and interpreting qualitative information, by using a variety of sources and methods to produce effective, reliable andtrustworthy data. Using case studies from Africa and Asia involving field personnel working in water supply, sanitation, and health/hygiene education projects, the handbook was developed as a practical answer to the limitations of using a single method or instrument for information gathering.  Alternatives to questionnaires are proposed, including a variety ofmethods and tools that can be mixed and matched; appraisals of individual methods and tools to help in the selection of the most appropriate combinations for the desired purpose; and a useful selection of common mistakes and pitfalls.

Hygiene Evaluation Procedures: Approaches and Methods for Assessing Water-And Sanitation-Related Hygiene Practices

Politics & Social Sciences

Manderson, Lenore

Almedom, Astier M.

Blumenthal, Ursula

Sociology

From Clients to Citizens: Communities Changing the Course of Their Own Development

Economies of Small: Appropriate technology in a changing world

Describes the origins and development of the appropriate technology movement, and analyses both its changing concerns at the different stages of development, and also its abiding emphasis on scale and human values.

The Economies of Small: Appropriate Technology in a Changing World

Kaplinsky, Raphael

Social Sciences

Gender, Small-scale Industry and Development Policy

Links the gender perspective on small-scale industry which explicitlyconcentrates on social groups, with economic questions of higher employment and wider distribution of production.

Baud, I.S.A.

de Bruijne, G.A.

Economics

<p>Questioning the dominant approaches taken by many professionals concerned with rural development the theme of this book is that "we" - the professionals - are much of the problem. New frontiers could be opened by reversing many ideas and practices.</p>

Challenging the Professions: Frontiers for Rural Development

CHAMBERS, ROBERT

Presents overwhelming evidence, from a range of disciplines, that local people do know a great deal about their environment. This knowledge must be taken into account in the planning and implementation of development to be both acceptable and effective. Forty six contributions from anthropologists, sociologists, geographers and agricultural scientists (among others) in academia and international organizations provide both case study material and general conceptual papers. The interdisciplinary approach of this book makes it an essential tool for those studying indigenous knowledge systems.

The Cultural Dimension of Development (IT Studies in Indigenous Knowledge and Development Series)

Warren, D. Michael

Slikkerveer, L. Jan

Brokensha, David

Reference

<p>This is a guide to the use of induction motors for electricity generation in remote locations. It is written as a practical handbook for engineers and technicians involved in designing and installing small water power schemes for isolated houses and communities.</p>

Motors as Generators for Micro-Hydro Power

Smith, Nigel

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