This book is a pioneering, comparative study of the practice of intercropping (growing two or mor...

Modern' or 'new paradigm' microfinancial services are reaching perhaps as many as twenty million ...

Occupational change is generally assumed to accompany 'development' and to be a necessary part of...

Contains information on basic masonry techniques, basic carpentry techniques and preparation for ...

This set of ten papers brings together lessons and experience on women's leadership and participa...

As development NGOs and official aid agencies embrace the idea of 'becoming a learning organisati...

Violence and women's fear of it limits women's choices in virtually all spheres of life. It has l...

If information flows well between and within organizations, it empowers people by enabling them t...

Development has failed to deliver on many of its promises to nations such as Bangladesh. Even wor...

Disaster Mitigation, Preparedness and Response brings together, for the first time, information o...

This book compares the experiences of structural adjustment in developing countries and the trans...

An objective account of a major Oxfam initiative: the Wajir Pastoral Development Project in north...

Collectively, billions of dollars have been invested in the provision of rural water supply syste...

Micro hydro power is ideally suited to meeting the energy needs of remote communities.A national ...

The Heart of the War in Colombia

Restocking can be an effective means of poverty alleviation, which enables poor households to be ...

Microfinance has been a long-lived development fashion and in 2005 it enjoyed the accolade of a U...

This book traces the evolution of transport theory and policy and the new 'needs led' approach, w...

The goals of this book are to promote understanding of water supply technologies and water supply...

This book points out how peasant labour redundancy can undermine rural welfare and political stab...

Vers Résilience: Un guide pour la réduction des risques de catastrophes et adaptation au changeme...

Faces of Latin America has sold more than 50,000 copies since it first appeared in 1991, and is w...

International development is replete with examples of failure. This has led to notes of cynicism ...

Safe drinking water near to the home and adequate household sanitation save poor households time,...

Published by Oxfam GBs UK Poverty Programme Gender analysis has been used in international develo...

Commercial organic cotton production is a new area of activity, and research and analysis is stil...

This manual is for development programme managers and project leaders who wish to incorporate an ...

Presents lessons learnt by VSO and other organizations over more than 30 years of working on rura...

Grassroot activists and researchers build on their varied personal experiences to clarify and str...

Using a broad definition of co-operatives as organizations with the majority ownership in the han...

Arms are out of control. Arms kill more than half a million men, women, and children on average e...

This manual, which gives full dimensions, describes the making of a machine which would be basic ...

Value chain development can identify and address the sector-specific bottlenecks that hinder the ...

Indigenous organizations are local-level institutions with a community base, such as women's grou...

Markets are a crucial component of how people survive. Understanding how markets are disrupted in...

This handbook describes how conventional sewerage schemes can be modified to reduce the cost of c...

Appropriate green technologies are sometimes regarded as a second-rate solution but the series In...

Conflicts over land use exist all over the world. In semi-arid parts of Africa, for example, past...

This book offers practical approaches to improve and empower the lives of at-risk, low-income, ur...

The pace of change for many rural communities across the developing world is exponential. New tec...

Selected by Malcolm Harper, this compilation comprises fourteen articles on the major development...

A general misconception among industries, small or large, in developed as well as developing coun...

Enthusiasm amongst international development agencies about harnessing the potential of informati...

Achieving water security remains an elusive goal yet the benefits of investing in water, sanitati...

A selection of papers from the 22nd WEDC conference, aiming to find ideas and techniques which wi...

Electricity is highly desired by low-income households, but it is all too often only obtained by ...

It is now being recognised among development professionals that urban poverty is massive and grow...

Progress towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals has fallen far short of the promises ma...