Haiti is a country which, until the earthquake of 2010, remained largely outside the focus of world interest and outside the important international historical currents during its existence as a free nation. The nineteenth century was the decisive period in Haitian history, serving to shape the...
19/05/1987 Integrated nutrient supply Improved fallow Nitrogen transfer from legumes Cover crops on acid soils Sunnhemp Rock phosphate Micro-nutrient drain Soil conservation and shifting cultivators Cycles of poverty
1/01/1990 Este volumen hace parte de una serie de publicaciones que Proyecto Regional para la Supercion de la Pobreza, en su calidad de Secretartia Techica de la I y II conferencias regegionales de pobreza, ha venido preparando desde 1988. Sobre la II Conferencia, en particular, se han publicado can este...
Mexican case studies in the culture of poverty. For a considerable number of years, Oscar Lewis has been experiementing with, and perfecting, an important technique for ethnological reportage. This is the minute and as nearly as possible total observation of the daily life of single family...
This case reveals that individual ownership can sometimes reduce de facto security of tenure and undermine socio-economic status. It provides clear evidence of how such settings often 'revert' to informality. From a policy perspective, it shows that intervention must differentiate 'the poor' in...
Key Resource19/01/1983 Rural poverty is often unseen or misperceived by outsiders. Dr Chambers contends that researchers, scientists, administrators and fieldworkers rarely appreciate the richness and validity of rural people's knowledge or the hidden nature of rural poverty. This is a challenging book for all...
1/01/2012 Poverty Cure Publisher: Acton Media, [2012] Media: DVD Summary:Poverty Cure is a six-episode DVD series on human flourishing. This high-energy, 152-minute documentary-style series challenges conventional thinking and reframes the poverty debate around the creative capacity of the human person,...
Publisher: Foundations for Farming Media: DVD Summary: Disc 1 The Battle for my Community - The Story of Makesure Muchenge Disc 2 Conviction -A Film by Patricia Mushanhu,The Story of Foundations for Farming Description: set of 2discs: Disc 1(13min.) Disc 2(26min.)
20/01/2009 Churches and individual Christians typically have faulty assumptions about the causes of poverty, resulting in the use of strategies that do considerable harm to poor people and themselves. When Helping Hurts provides foundational concepts, clearly articulated general principles and relevant...