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关键资源 2003-04-02 This book is an all-in-one "hands-on guide" for nontechnical and technical people working in less developed communities. It has been developed and designed with a prestigious team of authors, each of whom has worked extensively in developing societies throughout the world. This field guide...
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关键资源 1996-01-01 This is a book of practical ideas. It is written for people who help those who live and make their living under difficult conditions in the tropics and subtropics. What should a development worker do to assist a community? There are no simple answers, but there are many possibilities—plants,...
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This volume is intended to provide an overview of the relationship between water and human health. The primary focus is on water and health in the development world as influenced by provision of safe, adequate, accessible, and reliable drinking water supplies. Attention is also given to diseases...
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This guide covers shots, prevention, diagnosis, treatment.
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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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The entire range of seed marketing activities is addressed in this book. Methodologies for researching the market are reviewed and approaches to forecasting demand, both commercial demand at the level of the indidiual company and total national demand, are considered. Ways of best organizing a...
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This monograph fills an important gap by providing an overview on which nutrition interventions improve the nutrition status of women and children, with emphasis on the poor in developing countries. The purpose is to define a core menu of proven investment options supported by sound evidence of...
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This book documents some of the people that received the gift of livestock and training through the Heifer Project. 2 Copies
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The use of appropriate storage technologies is an important way of improving food security and lowering the risk of famine in the countries of the South. Storage is therefore an integral part of the food cycle. This book focuses on the storage of the staple commodities such as grains and root...
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This book is broken into four chapters: 1. an outline history of vitamin A deficiency disorders and of the discovery of the vitamin, gives an account of the main events, 2. a personal odyssey, forms the main part of the book. It includes the author'sexperiences when he was living and working in...