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Agricultural Extension: Guidelines for extension workers in rural areas
Ernst Bolliger with Peter Reinhard and Tonino Zellweger
Written for practitioners by practitioners, these guidelines will train and support extension workers in their main duty: to co-operate with the local population in recognizing problematic situations and seeking - together - to find suitable solutions.
ISBN 390800120X, (SKAT), 300pp, 1992,£29.95

Agricultural Trade: Principles andpolicies
Luther Tweeten
A complete coverage of strategic trade theory and application, imperfect competition, market power, and the political economy of agricultural trade.An easy-to-use analysis of trade principles, institutions, and policies.
ISBN 1853391581, (ITP), 352pp, 1992,£24.95

Agro-mechanical Diffusion in a BackwardRegion
Rakesh Basant and K.K.Subrahmanian
This exploration of the conditions which characterize the process of a general application of agro-mechanical technology is illustrated through a detailed study of the use of a new agricultural tool in rural India.
ISBN 1853390232, (ITP), 94pp, 1990,£9.95

Development of Training Materials in Agriculture: A course manual
Anthony Youdeowei and JosephKwarteng
This training manual will serve as an essential tool for resources staff, trainees and agricultural extension agents who plan and produce training materials for agriculture. The book is based on the group training courses on the development of training materials for rice production by the Communications and Training Project funded by UNDP. Part 1 of this course manual provides information on the principles and procedures for the production of training materials. After an overview of the training process and the role played by different types of training materials in this process, the manual provides instruction on the development and use of print materials and visual training materials. In part 2, the principles and procedures outlined in Part 1 are applied to the production of specific types of common training materials.
ISBN 9291130729, (WARDA), 104pp 1995, £12.00

Environmentally Sound Technologies for Women in Agriculture
IFAW and IIRR
This is a manual of 60 simple environmentally sound technologies which will help to reduce drudgery and increase efficiency while helping to maintain a clean and healthy environment. Although geared towards female extension workers in Asia, the resource material contained in this book can also be applied to male extension workers and agriculturalists throughout the world.
ISBN , (International Institute of Rural Reconstruction), 214pp, 1997, £19.95

Extension of Complex Issues: Success factors in integrated pest management
P.Schmidt, J.Stiefel and M.Hurlimann
Using five detailed projects from around the world, this book explores the factors that lead to successful implementation of pest management. It contains illustrations and examples.
ISBN 3906776026, (SKAT/SDC/LBL), 100pp,1997, £10.00

Farming for the Future: An introduction to low-external input and sustainable agriculture
Coen Reijntjes with Bertus Haverkort and Ann Waters-Bayer
Written for agricultural staff in extension, research and training, the central concern of this book is how development workers can assist small-scale farmers in making the best use of low-cost local resources to solve their agricultural problems.
ISBN 0333570111, (Macmillan), 250pp, 1992,£7.50

Farms, Trees and Farmers: Responses to agricultural intensification
Edited by J.E. Michael Arnold and Peter A.Dewees
In most parts of the developing world, rural people maintain trees in fields and around their homes in order to provide food, fuel and a variety of other locally important goods and services. However, until recently this extensive resource has attracted limited attention, and little has been known about smallholder tree management practices. Farms, Trees and Farmers documents major advances in our knowledge of the economic and social role of trees, and how this role has changed with the intensification of agriculture. For students on forestry courses and post-experience training courses, as well as planners, managers and practitioners within government and NGO projects.
ISBN 185383484X, (Earthscan), 286pp, 1997,£16.95

Field Surveying for Land and Water Management: Agrodok 6
CTA

ISBN 9072746333, (Agromisa), 118pp, 1990,£5.95

The Food System
Geoff Tansey, Tony Worsley.
With new technologies set to revolutionize the global food industry, understanding the food system and managing it carefully are essential to ensure that all the world's people enjoy a secure, sufficient and sustainable food supply.This book provides an essential overview of all the key issues and players. It makes an ideal text for students working on any aspect of food - from agriculture to food technology, management and retailng, catering and consumer studies, to politics and development. Packed with information, lively and accessible, it is also an absorbing book for the general reader concerned about their food.
ISBN 1853832774, (Earthscan), 271pp, 1995,£15.95

The Future of Community Lands - Human resources
Emmanuel Ndione, Philippe De Leener, Mamadou Ndiaye, Pierre Jacolin and Jean-Pierre Perier
This book describes the approaches and experiences of rural development workers in Senegal working with small-scale farmers. Its aim is to highlight successful methodological approaches adopted by this group in their attempt to help farmers revitalize the local environment in community lands, while building on the farmers' own experiences. It thus describes a facilitating approach. It is additionally interesting to anglophone readers because the book comes out of the experiences of development workers in francophone West Africa, and thus offers a fresh perspective on the common concerns of development workers worldwide.
ISBN 1853392480, (ITP), 236pp, 1995,£14.95

How to Make the Most of your Tractor
Introduced by Professor Brian May
This book is divided into four sections: operating your tractor, maintaining your tractor, carrying out field operations and how to work safely. Presented carefully and clearly, it is well illustrated with diagrams and pictures.
ISBN 0946688516, (ITP), 184pp, 1985,£14.95

Improving Food Security: A guide for rural development managers
Michael Hubbard
For policy makers and students as well as rural development managers and others with an interest in food security, this book discusses in a practical way the participative assessment of malnutrition and food security problems, how to improve nutrition, food and livestock markets, water supplies, finance, and co-operation between NGOs and governments, as well as the importance of strengthening local preparedness for famine prevention.
ISBN 1853393118, (ITP), 151pp, 1995,£9.95

Intercropping and the scientific basis oftraditional agriculture
Donald Innis
This book is a pioneering, comparative study of the practice of intercropping (growing two or more crops at once in the same field). Innis's meticulous analysis of the scientific base of different traditional forms of agriculture in Jamaica, Nepal and India, is at the forefront of the search for integrated systems of indigenous and modern agriculture. In his concluding chapter, Innis proposes the return of the small farmer to the land and suggests how this might be done. Published in the IT Studies in Indigenous Knowledge and Development series.
ISBN 1853393282, (ITP), 224pp, 1997,£19.95

Land is Life: Land reform and sustainableagriculture
Edited by Nigel Dudley with John Madeley and SueStolton
Links the issues of sustainable agriculture andland reform. When farmers own their land they are likely to produce more food and to farmsustainably. Large increases in food output occur when farmers are given land under agrarianreform programmes.
ISBN 1853391468, (ITP), 144pp, 1992,£10.95

Living Farms: Encouraging sustainablesmallholders in Southern Africa
Martin Whiteside
In Living Farms the author sets out to examinethe nature, meaning and future of sustainable agriculture for smallholding farmers. The authorprovides an analysis of current experience in South Afrtica, a review of potential technologiesand a rich variety of recommendations in the three areas necessary for sustainable agriculture:technologies for sustainability; community organization and participation; and the wider policyand service environments.
ISBN 1853835900, (Earthscan), 214pp, 1998,£13.95

Natural Veterinary Medicine: Ectoparasites inthe tropics
Uly Matzigkeit
Once an insect develops a resistance to apesticide, even the maximum permissible dose cannot successfully control the pest. Producingnew stronger pesticides does not solve the problem, it simply drives the spiral of resistanceupwards. This book enables practitioners worldwide to gain access to the most recent resultsavailable to combat this problem.
ISBN 382361195X, (Backhuys Pubs), 188pp,1990, £15.95

People's Farming Workbook
EDA Trust
The People's Farming Workbook is a new andup-to-date edition of the farming section in the hugely popular People's Workbook. Originallywritten for the millions of Southern Africa's small farmers who help themselves by growing theirown vegetables or keeping their own chickens and a few goats, this book will also help any smallfarmer or small-holder in developing countries to help themselves.The People's Farming Workbook is easy to read and easy to use, with hundreds of helpfulillustrations. It includes interviews with small farmers from all over Southern Africa, as well asa new chapter on sustainable agriculture - on keeping the land healthy and fertile so that it cango on producing for the generations to come.
ISBN 0864861125, (David Philip Publishers),250pp, 1995, £17.50

Permaculture: A designer's manual
Bill Mollison
This book is written to help teahcers, students anddesigners in the field of Permaculture to create sustainable human settlements, and preserve andextend natural systems. It covers aspects of designing and maintaining a cultivated ecology inany climate; the principles of design; design methods; understanding patterns in nature; climaticfactors; water; soils; earthworks; techniques and strategies in the different climatic types;aquaculture; and the social, legal and economic design of human settlement.
ISBN 0908228015, (Tagari), 574pp, 1988,£29.95

Providing Food Security for All
Mohiuddin Alamgir and Poonam Arora with an introductionby Idriss Jazairy
This volume, the first in a series from IFAD onRural Poverty, is an in-depth user-friendly study of global food security, focused at the householdlevel, which includes dozens of revealing figures, charts and tables.
ISBN 1853391158, (ITP), 288pp, 1991,£30.00

Providing Food Security for All
Mohiuddin Alamgir and Poonam Arora with an introductionby Idriss Jazairy
This book is an in-depth user-friendly study ofglobal food security, focused at the household level, which includes dozens of revealing figures,charts and tables (Published in the IFAD Rural Poverty series).
ISBN 1853391174, (ITP), 288pp, 1991,£17.50

Regenerating Agriculture
Jules N. Pretty
For the past half century the aim of agriculturehas been to increase food production, relying on high inputs of fertilisers and pesticides andintensive industrial methods that have damaged environmental, economic and social systems.This book shows - with case studies from industrialized and developing countries - that there areviable alternatives: agriculture that can conserve resources without loss of productivity whilemaintaining rural employment and minimizing external costs.
ISBN 1853831980, (Earthscan), 350pp, 1995,£14.95

Rural Development: 700 reference books fortropical agriculture
Edited by Marie-Pierre Delannoy
A bibliography of the most popular agriculturalreference books selected by partners in the CTA DORA (Dissemination of AgriculturalReference Books) project. The bibliography provides a brief description of each book, classifiedaccording to the FAO AGRIS system, with indexes using French and English Agrovocdescriptors, author index, organization index and a list of publishers and distributors.
ISBN 2950582834, (BDPA), 260pp, 1995,£9.95

Rural Development: Putting the lastfirst
Robert Chambers
The central theme is that rural poverty is oftenunseen or misperceived by outsiders. Chambers argues for fundamental reversals in outsiders'learning and values, and proposes realistic action for tackling rural poverty.
ISBN 0582644437, (Longman), 246+x pp, 1983, £2.25

Rural Vulnerability to Famine in Ethiopia:1958-77
Mesfin Wolde Mariam
Taking the records of famine over 20 years in the102 provinces of Ethiopia, the author analyses the roots and consequences of famine in thecountry. He recommends social and administrative changes in order to remove rural vulnerabilityto famine.
ISBN 0946688036, (ITP), 208pp, 1986,£14.95

Sustainable Rural Development: Starting froma critical review of conventional approaches
Andrew Shepherd
Sustainable Rural Development chronicles theemergence of a new paradigm marked by a focus on sustainable agriculture and the role of civilsociety and local institutions in development and environment management.The book links together advances in content, approach and organisation to provide.