1/1/1984 The purpose of this guide is to assist groups or individuals who have little or very limited experience with animals, but who wish to undertake a livestock project. It is intended for the person who is working with the small-holder, the landless or nearly landless rural family, or with women's or...
1/1/1991 This technical report is based on a series of commissioned papers prepared for the Canberra Seminar, country studies, and consultation concerning biotechnology conducted during 1988-89. The results are presented in this report, organized around the following topics: the likely socioeconomic...
This report outlines our views on some of the policy changes which are needed to eradicate poverty.As a non-governmental organisation working in over 70 developing countries, Oxfam is acutely aware that there are no easy answers when it comes to development. Much of what we say in this report is...
Recurso clave1/11/1993 This edition covers small water supply systems, renewable energy devices such as watermills and improved cookstoves, agricultural tools and implements, intensive gardening, workshop tools and equipment, crop preservation, housing, health care, forestry, aquaculture, nonformal education, small...
Compiled on behalf of the Animal Traction Network for Eastern and South Africa (ATNESA) as a resource book on animal-drawn carts, these guidelines cover all aspects of their design, production and marketing. Full details - with many three dimensional drawings - are given of the construction of a...
The purpose of this book is to express as meaningfully as possible and in as many instances as are appropriate those underlying assumptions and principles which give the land-grand institutions their vitality, to explain and discuss the general structure which seems to have best promoted these...
This book provides an illustrated guide to low-cost forms of transport. Its purpose is to focus attention on the real transport needs of developing communities, and to inform decision-makers about the range of low-cost vehicles available to meet many of those needs. The heart of the book is a...
1/1/1993 The aim of this series of publications is to bring together published information on selected genera of trees which have the potential to increase the supploy of fodder for ruminants. Each booklet summarizes published information on the fodder characteristics and nutritive value of one genus,...