This volume contains Parts II, III, IV and V, together with an appendix for US AID users. Part II identifies the role of projects in each sector in economic and social development together with the policy implications of such projects, describes the characteristics of projects likely to have high...
This book is addressed to all who are concerned with agricultural research, extension and development, regardless of discipline, profession or organization. It presents an outline of approaches, with evidence and examples.
This report provides new analysis and thinking from both nutrition research and practice. It is meant to stimulate discussion and inform policy setting. The intended audience is a broad constituency of professionals concerned with development, for which nutrition is an indicator of achievement...
Extension workers foster effective two-way communication between farmers and support services in the role of facilitators. They help farmers develop a new sense of competent autonomy, as they confront together the world that is changing around them.
The first issue of DEEP on food security, prepared by the Liasison Committee of Develoment NGOs to the European Union focused on international and macroeconomic influences on food security. This issue takes a domestic approach in two senses. It considers those policy influences which can be...
1988-01-01 An easy-to-use handbook for development workers interested in exploring agroforestry practices with their local communities with special reference to low rainfall areas. 68 pages, ilustrations, photos
1989-01-01 The world is on the verge of receiving new life forms that will profoundly and irrevocably change the global economy: the "gene hunters" who first cloned the gene in 1973 are now not only modifying existing species but also creating new plants and animals. Ready or not for such awesome power, the...
The purpose of this book is to provide a simple synthesis of the research on novel agroecosystems and technologies and an analysis of ecologically based farms, for the purpose of establishing the scientific basis of alternative agriculture. This book is an urgent call to all students of...
This Third Report on the World Nutrition, Situation is part of a series of SCN reports initiated in the mid 80s on nutritional status of populations in developing countries. These reports focus on information important for all the UN agencies concerned with nutrition, and for the many governments...