Resources Tagged: Rural Areas

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  1. Land Registration in Mali - No Land Ownership for Farmers?

    2007-01-07 This paper outlines the procedures for gaining access to land ownership through land titles, and discusses their limitations. It is based on elements of two pieces of field research undertaken between June 2003 and May 2005.
    Mali Land Acquisition Land Ownership Land Tenure Rural areas

  2. Rice and Man: Agricultural Ecology in Southeast Asia

    1972-01-01 Rice is the most widely consumed and ecologically adaptable cereal on earth, and in the first part of the book Hanks provides us with a synthesizing account of its history, the nature of its cultivation, its adaptablility, and the social and energy requirements necessary for its production. The...
    Rural Development Rural areas Rural Conditions Bang Chan Rice Thailand Agricultural ecology

  3. Village Medical Manual A Layman's Guide to Health Care in Developing Countries Volume 2: Diagnosis and Treatments

    Village Medical Manual is a two-volume guide to health care in developing countries where expert medical care can be hard to find. Its intended use is by those who are required, by location and circumstances, to render medical care for which they are not professionally trained. Reader-friendly...
    Handbook Resources Developing countries Medicine Rural areas Community health a...

  4. Blacksmith, Baker, Roofing-Sheet Maker: Employment for Rural Women in Developing Countries

    Using over 50 case studies from 22 countries which show how unconventional projects have developed women's earning power, this book is a source of ideas for all those helping to develop cash-producing work for women in developing countries.
    Baked Products Ind... Blacksmithing Rural areas Rural Development Women in Development Employment for Women Developing countries

  5. Al Andar Se Hace Camino

    2000-01-01 *Available only in Spanish. Over the last 40 years, an impressive number of theories on different aspects of rural development have been formulated and then rejected. The few theories that have endured are, for the most part, those that were born out of practice. The survivors had to struggle for...
    Rural areas Rural Outreach Rural Development Spanish Language

  6. Improving Child Nutrition and Education Through the Promotion of School Garden Programmes

    2002-01-01 This publication describes the major aims, educational and economic,of school garden programs 13 pages
    Rural areas Urban Gardening Educational Resources School gardens

  7. Land Use Planning Techniques and Policies

    1984-01-01 This publication contains eight papers presented at a symposium on land use planning techniques and policies organized and co-sponsored by Div. S5, S6, A1, and A2 at the 1982 ASA annual meeting in Atlanta, GA.
    Policy United States Soil Conservation Land Use Rural areas

  8. Locally Generated Printed Materials in Agriculture: Experience from Uganda and Ghana

    1999-01-01 This is one of a series of Education Papers issued from time to time by the Education Division of the Department for International Development. Each paper represents a study or piece of commissioned research on some aspect of education and training in developing countries. Most of the studies...
    Educational Resources Ghana Communications in ... Rural Development Rural education Rural areas

  9. Let's Take Care of Our Earth

    1994-01-01 *Available only in Spanish. This Book collects and extends the broad ideas exposed in the illustration. It methodically analyzes the main activities related to peasant life and the simple ways that exist to make them more productive and less harmful to man and his environment. Through a patient...
    Rural Outreach Rural areas Ecology Environmental resp... Spanish Language

  10. New Actors and Land Acquisition around Lake Bazega, Burkino Faso

    The author hopes that this study will contribute to understanding of the land situation around Lake Bazega, which is causing concern among both local actors and the administrative authorities in the province. W found that there are different modes of access to land under customary rights: gifts,...
    agriculture Rural areas Land Acquisition