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Resources Tagged: Developing Countries

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  1. 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...
    Poverty Rural Development Developing countries Rural Poor

  2. The A to Z Of World Development

    Compiled by theNew Internationalisteditorial team, this is a reference work providing a comprehensive overview of the main ideas and issues in global development over the last 25 years. The book covers 624 different topics, reflecting theNew Internationalistperspective on aid, development, the...
    Economic Development Economic History Political Development Developing countries

  3. Marketing for small-scale producers

    This booklet explains how the market works and how small-scale producers can best take advantage of the market to earn more money.
    Developing countries Farm Produce-Marke...

  4. Traditional cheesemaking

    Using traditional cheesemaking methods, this book gives an idea of the opportunities that cheesemaking offers as a source of rural employment, and of the problems that will be encountered by anyone planning to start such a business.
    Appropriate Techno... Developing countries Cheese

  5. Empowerment through enterprise: a training manual for non-government organizations

    Based on over 20 years' experience in training NGO staff in enterprise development, this manual provides detailed guidelines for an eleven-day training course whose objective is to enable NGO staff to better assist others trying to start their own businesses. It covers marketing, financial...
    Economic Developme... Business Education Developing countries New Business Enter...

  6. Bees and trees

    This document explains how to encourage and protect the important relationship between bees and trees, and the benefits of doing so.
    Pollinators Economic Botany Bee culture Developing countries

  7. Where There is No Job: Vocational Training for Self-Employment in Developing Countries

    In his introduction Professor Kenneth King sets the stage by outlining the larger forces that are shaping the growing interest in self-employment, and makes the case for practical responses that are grounded in the experiences of informal sector businesspeople.
    Vocational Guidance Developing countries Self-Employed Occupational Training

  8. Small farm implements

    The purpose of this publication is to spread the knowledge of better tools and to provided farm implement experts, agricultural leaders and techniques with information on the principles governing the design of small tools and their use.
    Agricultural Imple... Farm Mechanization Developing countries Agricultural Machi... Farm Equipment

  9. Fertiliser risks in the developing countries: a review

    In this article we examine the health hazards posed by nitrogen fertiliser use in developing countries and particularly three serious human disease, methaemoglobinaemia, gastric and bladder cancer. We then discuss the losses of nitrogen from fertilisers to water and the atmosphere and the...
    Fertilizers-Enviro... Developing countries

  10. Agricultural Extension Systems: An International Perspective

    2001-01-01 This book is composed of seventeen chapters, featuring unique extension systems and approaches. Although not every type of system can be included, these case studies provide a cross-section of extension approaches found internationally. Students of extension education realize that some extension...
    Agricultural exten... Developing countries