Kayamanan -Tag: Developing Countries

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  1. Farming for the Future: An Introduction to Low-External-Input and Sustainable Agriculture

    01/01/1992 This is a book about farming. But, more than that, it is a book about farmers, about men and women farmers. It is seldom that farmers particularly those in the Third World - have an opportunity to make themselves heard. In this book, an effort has been made to give as much room as possible to the...
    Low-External-Input Agriculture Develo... Food Security Developing countries Small-Scale Agricu... Small Scale Farmers ILEIA Downloads

  2. Guidelines For Planning

    01/01/1985 The purpose of this manual is to help development workers and others to become aware of the environmental factors that should be considered in planning small-scale energy projects that are environmentally sound and therefore more likely to be sustained. Environmentally sound planning includes the...
    Planning VITA Energy Planning Small Scale Developing countries Downloads

  3. Packaging: 7 Food Cycle Technology Source Book

    Good packaging improves the presentation of a foodstuff, increasing its market value as well as convenience in handling. Packaging can perform three functions: it acts as a container, enabling a chosen quantity of a product to be handled as a unit during distribution and storage; it helps to...
    Food-Packaging Developing Country... Developing countries

  4. The Gift That Releases: Rural Development in the Two-Thirds World - First Steps

    19/01/1987 This teaching guide uses examples from rural communities to bring out some of these lessons for the two-thirds world. The main focus is on initiating a process that is determined by local interests and appropriate solutions, rather than a program controlled by the budgets and agendas of external...
    Rural Development Developing countries Cross-Cultural Stu... Paternalism

  5. Opportunities for Biological Control of Agricultural Pests in Developing Countries

    From a foundation in the methods and success of biological control (Chapter 1), its implementation and cost (Chapter 2) and its probability of success (Chapter 3), we have developed in this chapter specific priorities for biological control programmes in the major crops of developing countries....
    Pest Control Biological Control Agricultural Pests Developing countries

  6. The Gene Hunters: Biotechnology and the Scramble for Seeds

    01/01/1989 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...
    Germplasm Resources Economic policy Developing countries Useful Plants Africa Plant Biotechnology

  7. Planning for Agroforestry

    01/01/1988 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
    Developing countries Agroforestry Planning Agroforestry

  8. Energy for Rural Development: Renewable Resources and Alternative Technologies for Developing Countries

    Focuses on small-scale energy technologies, not based on conventional fuels that are candidates for rural and village use in developing countries. The technologies that this book presents are capable of improving the quality of rural and village life in situations where conventional fuels and...
    agriculture Developing countries Power Resources Energy Consumption Solar Energy

  9. Prospects for Traditional and Non-Conventional Energy Sources in Developing Countries: A Background Study for World Development Report

    01/01/1979 This paper discuessed the prospects for traditional and nonconventional energy in the period to 1990 under three general headings: energy and basic needs, energy and modernization, and nonconventional energy sources for the modern sector and developed countries.
    Renewable Natural ... Power Resources Energy Development Developing countries

  10. 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.
    Developing countries Employment for Women Women in Development Rural Development Rural areas Blacksmithing Baked Products Ind...