This new, revised edition includes information for trainers conducting rabbit courses, with the aim of developing sustainable meat projects to help families improve nutrition and income. Ten modules cover the following topics: Production Systems and Economics, Genetics and Selection, Housing and...
A Basic Guide to Evaluation promotes clear thinking about the purpose of an evaluation. It is intended to help groups to plan for and carry out evaluations as an integral part of development activities. What are the objectives of evaluations? How can they improve effectiveness? The easy-to-follow...
If readers take away one message from this report, it should be that ending malnutrition in all its forms will catalyse improved outcomes across the sustainable global development goals. Whoever you are, and whatever you work on, you can make a difference to achieving these goals, and you can...
1/01/2004 Gardens have been kept by rural and urban people for millennia thus providing them with food, income and concrete opportunities to improve their livelihoods. Policy-makers, donors and other development specialists need to realize the great potential and opportunities that gardens can provide to...
The UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) has been operating since 2012 under the auspices of the UN Secretary-General. SDSN mobilizes global scientific and technological expertise to promote practical solutions for sustainable development, including the implementation of the...
1/01/2007 This publication looks at soil and water conservation from a global perspective. In total, 42 soil and water conservation technologies and 28 approaches are described – each on four pages with photographs, graphs and line drawings – from more than 20 countries around the world. These and many...
1/01/1996 This text has been written primarily for the specialist market of second and third year undergraduate and post-graduate students of economics. The clear explanations and basic principles that underpin the text, however, make it readily accessible to non-economists coming to environmental...
This book, which relies to a large extent on his own words, and those of his contemporaries, focuses on aspects of Carver's life that made him a "blazer of trails" to a sustainable future--one in which each generation of humankind will achieve its well-being in ways that protect the earth and its...
1/01/2009 This Assessment is a constructive initiative and important contribution that all governments need to take forward to ensure that agricultural knowledge, science and technology fulfils its potential to meet the development and sustainability goals of the reuction of hunger and poverty, the...