1. This book tells the story of an American woman's experience working in a social and economic devlopment project in the small town of Conacaste, Guatemala. But this is no routine tale of doing good in the Third World.
  2. 01/01/1980 El programa Integral para el Desarrollo Rural es un instrumento do politica economica del GObierno Federal cuya finalidad consiste en promover el desarrollo de los nucleos rurales atrasados del pais y hacerles llegar los niveles de bienestar a los que tienen derecho*. SU universo de trabajo esta...
  3. Mexican case studies in the culture of poverty. For a considerable number of years, Oscar Lewis has been experiementing with, and perfecting, an important technique for ethnological reportage. This is the minute and as nearly as possible total observation of the daily life of single family...
  4. The main findings of this study support the hypothesis that village chicken production forms the basis for transforming the rural poultry sector from subsistence to a more economically productive base. This study also highlights the importance of information systems, which include data management...
  5. 01/01/1972 Rice is the most widely consumed and ecologically adaptable cereal on earth, and in the first part of the book Hanks provides us with a synthesizing account of its history, the nature of its cultivation, its adaptablility, and the social and energy requirements necessary for its production. The...