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This book describes 13 cases from 10 countries around the world (Bolivia, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Nicaragua, Peru, Rwanda and Tanzania) where such initiatives have unclogged value chains, improved the lives of the rural poor, produced more and high-quality agricultural products, and made the...
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2004-01-01 Over two billion people in developing countries use only traditional biomass -- wood, dung and crop waste -- for their basic energy needs. The pollution from the burning of these fuels for cooking and heating is linked to the deaths of over 1.6 million people each year (more than three people a...
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A detailed survey of the main areas of bio-energy and biomass, solar energy and hydro, wind and water power. The authors address the advantages and disadvantages of renewable energies, their appropriateness, and their socio-economic implications.
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One of the greatest challenges of the 21st century will be to lift 3 billion people from poverty - and assist billions more living on its cusp - against a backdrop of sever natural resource degradation. With this the lundamental connections between human security and natural resource integrity...
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Helping to enhance the livelihood of people around the globe. This book discusses an integrated approach to development, executive/ legislative relationships, new business model for growth, changes in structure, base funding on long-term strategies, and the reform that is needed now.
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This book covers a wide range of topics, including maternal and child services, tropical medicine and surgery, epidemic and infectious diseases, leprosy and tuberculosis, sanitation, community health programmes, rehabilitation of the handicapped, nursing and medical education, and the sprecial...
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This guide provides managers, such as district medical officers, senior nurses, and midwives, with a wide variety of instruments for measuring some variables that determine the quality of primary child care. With these you can make a service diagnosis to find out where your present services fell...
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Development analysts tend to give short shrift to the seemingly minor bureaucratic hitches faced by practitioners - those who design, manage, implement, and evaluate aid projects. Often critical of foreign aid either for its apparent ineffectiveness at alleviating poverty or its purported...
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1993-01-01 The aim of this series of publications is to bring together published information on selected genera of trees (Acacia) which have the potenital to increase the supply of fodder for ruminants. Each booklet summarizes published information on the fodder characteristics and nutritive value of one...
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Plans for developing the agriculture program at the Haitian American Friendship Foundation's High School/Technical School at Bohoc, Haiti.