Resources Tagged: Poverty

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  1. Peasants and Poverty: A Study of Haiti

    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...
    Haiti Haitian Politics Poverty Alleviating Poverty Economic Development

  2. FM 1987 ILEIA Newsletter Vol 3 #1

    1987-05-19 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
    Cover Crops Poverty Soil Conservation Fallow Sunn Hemp Legumes Phosphorus Micronutrients Soil Acidity Nitrogen

  3. Hacia un Desarrollo Sin Pobreza en America Latina y el Caribe Towards Development without Poverty in La...

    1990-01-01 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...
    Sustainable Develo... Latin America Caribbean Poverty Preventing Poverty Spanish Language

  4. Five Families: Mexican Case Studies in the Culture of Poverty

    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...
    Preventing Poverty Poverty Case Studies Rural Conditions

  5. Mysteries and Myths: De Soto, Property and Poverty in South Africa

    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...
    Property Rights Poverty

  6. Rural Development: Putting the Last First

    Key Resource 1983-01-19 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...
    Rural Poor Developing countries Rural Development Poverty

  7. Healthy Food, Farms and Families 17th Annual Report on the State of World Hunger

    2006-01-01 Healthy Food, Farms and Families focuses on how we can address the hunger and poverty in rural America. 175 pages,photos
    Rural Poor United States Poverty Rural Development World Hunger

  8. Poverty Cure

    2012-01-01 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,...
    DVD Poverty Documentary

  9. Foundations For Farming - Revelation To Feed A Nation

    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.)
    Traditional farming Africa DVD Poverty Appropriate Techno...

  10. When Helping Hurts: How To Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting The Poor... And Yourself

    2009-01-20 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...
    Poverty Alleviating Poverty