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This book is an expose of the many food consumption-related
problems which need to be considered alongside agricultural
production issues in development. It examines factors that
determine the degree to which people have access to food and can
assimilate its nutrients.
The African Sahel has one of the poorest regional economies in the
world. Within it pastoralists are particularly vulnerable because
development policy has often failed to address local concerns. By
contrast, the Turkana rainwater harvesting project described in
this book stands out in its simplicity - a basic water conservation
technology based on priorities identified by local people, adapted
by them, and in which local pastoralists and gardeners take full
responsibility for the control and administration of their work.
The authors illustrate the project's progress through a series of
descriptive scenes which discuss the successes and learning
experiences. The whole process, covering the years 1984 to 1990,
was one of continuous dialogue between western technological
principles and experience, and local observation and knowledge -
resulting in a successful learning process promising to empower
local people to better cope with economic pressures and the harsh
environment. Written and designed for development workers, farmers
and agricultural fieldworkers, researchers and extensionists, as
well as project planners and advisors, this companion to Rainwater
Harvesting has lessons in participatory techniques for all those
engaged in projects involving development agencies and local
people.
This book emphasizes the importance of social, economic, and
environmental considerations when planning and implementing
projects. For rural development workers, it aims to fill the gap in
existing literature on the gathering and storage of rainwater.
This book is an expose of the many food consumption-related
problems which need to be considered alongside agricultural
production issues in development. It examines factors that
determine the degree to which people have access to food and can
assimilate its nutrients.
A nutritional approach directed to rural women to encourage them to
grow more and better food for their families in areas of widespread
malnutrition. Includes details of suitable tools, plant varieties
and gardening methods for the tropics and subtropics.
This document is written for hospital staff and community
development workers in developing countries who are planning to
start sanitation or hygiene improvement programmes.
From cathedrals to star wars, Arnold Pacey looks at the
interaction of technologies and society over the last thousand
years and uses that survey to argue for a more humane form of
future technological development. The second edition of The Maze of
Ingenuity concentrates on Europe and North America and incorporates
recent insights from the history and sociology of technology. A new
series of chapters extends Pacey's discussion of the role of ideas
and ideals in technology in the period since the industrial
revolution. Arnold Pacey has taught the history of science and
technology at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and
Technology. Work on this new edition has been carried on in
parallel with tutorial teaching for an Open University course
entitled "Technology and Change."Contents: The Cathedral Builders:
European Technical Achievement between 1100 and 1280. A Century of
Invention: 1250-1350. Mathematics and the Arts: 1450-1600. The
Practical Arts and the Scientific Revolution. Social Ideals in
Technical Change: German Miners and English Puritans, 1450-1650.
The State and Technical Progress: 1660-1770. Technology in the
Industrial Revolution. Conflicting Ideals in Engineering: America
and Britain, 1790-1870. Institutionalizing Technical Ideals,
1820-1920. Idealistic Trends in Twentieth-Century Technology.
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