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reading
How to Grow a Balanced Diet: A handbook for community workers
Ann Burgess et al
How to Grow a Balanced Diet is a much needed practical handbook which bridges the gap between nutritional problems and agricultural solutions. The book helps community workers and local groups identify nutritional needs and grow the required food crops organically. The organic growing methods described are tailored to small-scale plots, drawing on local farming knowledge and using readily available resources without the need for expensive inputs. The clear and accessible style makes this an essential guide for all development workers at community level in developing countries who want to help people grow food crops to improve their nutritional status.
£12.00 1998 PB VSO ISBN 0950905062
Growing Diversity: Genetic resources and local food security
David Cooper et al
In this book, activists present their experiences of managing plant genetic resources. The contributors document the achievement of farmers in developing crop varieties tailored to their needs and demonstrate how these approaches can be built upon to promote both conservation and development. They demonstrate the effects of government programmes upon conservation and illustrate the inventiveness of a range of community based groups. There is a growing recognition of the vital importance of plant genetic resources for world food security and of the crucial role of small-scale farmers in developing sustainable approaches to agriculture. This timely book provides valuable examples of how farmers can successfully manage their own resources.
£11.95 1992 PB ITP ISBN 1853391239
Gardening for Better Nutrition
Arnold Pacey
The subject of this manual is the basic technology of horticulture and vegetable growing as it applies mainly to family gardens. Conventional agricultural services, on the whole, encourage commercial crop production without much thought for the nutritional consequences of the policies they advocate. Medical services and other organisations concerned with the high incidence of malnutrition in some countries have experimented with a different kind of agricultural programme aimed at helping those who grow vegetables for immediate use by their own families.
£7.95 1978 PB Oxfam&ITP ISBN 0903031507
Nutrition Handbook for Community Workers in the Tropics
TALC
This handbook contains important information on discovering a community's food and nutrition situation; working with people in the community; nutrition education; principles of good nutrition; selecting, storing and using foods carefully; preventing and combating malnutrition, diarrhoea, obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure; nutrition for children and pregnant and breast-feeding women; and examples of planning meals and diets appropriately.
£6.99 1986 PB Macmillan ISBN 0333577558
For Hunger-proof Cities: Sustainable Urban Food Systems
Mustafa Koc et al
This is the first book to examine food security from an urban perspective. It examines existing local food systems and ways to improve the availability and accessibility of food for city dwellers. It looks at methods to improve community-supported agriculture and cooperation between urban and rural populations. It explores what the emerging forms of food-distribution systems are, and how they can contribute to alleviating hunger in the cities. Finally, the book discusses the underlying structures that create poverty and inequality and examines the role of emergency food systems, such as food banks.
£19.95 1999 PB IDRC ISBN 0889368821
Refugees: Rationing the Right to Life - The Crisis in Emergency Relief
David Keen
This book aimed at both a professional and a general audience, describes the workings of the international emergency relief system at its best and worst moments, and shows how inappropriate strategies have led to thousands dying unneccessarily. Since cost effectiveness is a matter of life and death for the refugees, the system must be improved. This book's Agenda for Action proposes ways of doing this. 'This book is about food aid in refugee camps, and it might not be quite what you were expecting. We need to think again urgently about overseas aid policy, and how the UN system is working out' Richard Branson.
£10.95 1992 PB ZED ISBN 1856490920
The Natural Way of Farming - The Theory and Practice of Green Philosophy
Masanobu Fukuoka
Imagine raising crops with no cultivation, no chemical fertilizers or herbicides, not even any added compost! Kukuoka has learned not to ask the impossible of nature and he is blessed with impossibly high yields. Instead of continually attempting to do a little bit more, he has looked for ways to do less, to leave off unnecessary labours, and yet his soil grows richer every year. He has pared his costs, equipment and techniques down to an absolute minimum, rejecting the race to keep up with runaway relative economics for a saner, more balanced natural cycle. He offers us a provocative image of stewardship to the earth as the cornerstone to a society of sufficiency, permanence, and self-renewal.
£14.95 1993 PB Bookventure ISBN 8185987009
Fruit and Vegetables
Ian MacDonald & John Low
This book has been written for farmers, agricultural advisers and teachers who need a reference book which contains basic information about growing crops and gives detailed guidance concerning essential farming practices. It deals with those crops that are grown in a vegetable garden or small orchard. The recommendations are designed to be applicable throughout the tropics.
£8.95 1984 PB Evans ISBN 0237507900
The New Forester
Berry van Gelder & Phil O'Keefe
The challenge for foresters, and other rural development professionals, is to build new landscapes which provide a range of biomass products to local users. This book will contribute to that task by helping professionals to see new opportunities by working through, not against, the local people. This book is aimed at foresters, but its practical approach is worth the attention of all rural development practitioners, as well as individuals within a range of professional backgrounds from engineering to sociology.
£10.95 1995 PB ITP ISBN 1853392324
Beekeeping in the Tropics
Agromisa & CTA
This booklet provides information on how to work with honey bees that nest in cavities. Although the composition of a honey bee colony is basically the same all over the world, management of bees must be adapted to the species and race, the climate and the vegetation. If you want to start keeping bees it is recommended to work with an experienced beekeeper for at least one year. If you want to improve beekeeping in your area, start with the existing local methods and try to improve these step by step instead of introducing and entirely new method. This booklet therefore stresses the importance of starting at the local level and to experience the profits beekeeping might offer. Low input techniques, implying the use of local bees, local knowledge and local material can be the basis of a successful development of beekeeping for individuals as well as large-scale programmes.
£5.95 1988 PB CTA ISBN 9072746139
Beekeeping as a Business
IBRA & Commonwealth Secretariat
This publication includes sections on: Why bees?; The bee colony; Wild bees, nests and traditional hives; Top-bar hives; How to attract the bees; Improved hives; Beekeeping equipment; Hive products and an explanation of common beekeeping terms.
£10.99 1999 PB IBRA&CFTC ISBN 0850926319
Beekeeping in Rural Development
IBRA & CTA
Simple introductory booklet from the International Bee Research Association.
£2.00 1990 PB CTA ISBN 0860981991
Tofu & Soymilk Production
William Shurtleff
£30.00 1996 PB Soyfoods Centre ISBN0933332726
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