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  1. Agricultural Options for Small-Scale Farmers: A handbook for those who serve them

    Tim Motis Agricultural Options for Small-Scale Farmers features selected content from the first 100 issues of ECHO Development Notes, a quarterly technical bulletin targeted towards ECHO's international network of development workers. It is a book filled with practical options for helping resource-poor,...
    631.584 MOT | PI.013

  2. Amaranth to Zai Holes: ideas for growing food under difficult conditions

    Laura S. Meitzner, Martin L. Price. 2 Copies This is a book of practical ideas. It is written for people who help those who live and make their living under difficult conditions in the tropics and subtropics. What should a development worker do to assist a community? There are no simple answers, but there are many possibilities—...
    633.091 MEI | PI.007, PI.008

  3. Let's Restore Our Land: Church and Community Leaders Working Together to Restore the Land

    Dan Fountain Let’s Restore Our Land describes how church and community leaders came to realize that the soil that produces our food is becoming weak, and the forests that provide us with many resources are disappearing. They recognized that God has given us the responsibility to care for and protect these...
    333.009 FOU | DA.006

  4. Foreign to Familiar: a guide to understanding hot- and cold-climate cultures

    Sarah A. Lanier Foreign to Familiar is a splendidly written, well researched work on cultures. Anyone traveling abroad should not leave home without this valuable resource! Sarah's love and sensitivity for people of all nations will touch your heart. This book creates within us a greater appreciation for our...
    303.482 LAN | CA.002

  5. Rubber (Tropical Agriculturalist)

    M.A. Delabarre & et al This book covers all practical aspects of growing rubber.
    678.2 DEL | PH.023

  6. Farmer to farmer extension: Lessons from the field

    Daniel Selener [et al] This book is the result of two workshops, one held in Honduras and another held inEcuador, that were undertaken to describe and analyse the personal experiences of farmer promoters who provideextensionservices for community development, a methodology known as 'farmer-to-farmer extension'. The...
    630.715 SEL | DB.010

  7. Sugar Cane (Tropical Agriculturalist)

    R. Fauconnier Sugar Cane covers in detail the characteristics and cultivation of this important crop in a variety of different agricultural systems and zones, from small plantations to large estates.
    633.6 FAU | PB.010

  8. Training for Transformation, Vol. 4: A handbook for community workers

    Anne Hope, Sally Timmell Training for Transformation Book 4 is a practical and accessible workbook for community development workers. It recognizes that the only changes which effectively transform the lives of poor people are those in which they have been active participants--this book, and the earlier books in the...
    307.14 HOP | DB.006

  9. Coffee growing (Tropical Agriculturalist)

    H.R.Cambrony This book describes the basic botany of the coffee plant an how to grow it in a variety of African Zones and farming systems, with reference to other tropical areas. All the practical growing techniques are given in detail. 2 Copies
    633.73 CAM | PH.002, PH.016

  10. Growing Vegetables in Fiji

    Kirk Dahlgren This out-of-print Peace Corps publication in Fiji was such a good concise guide to gardening in hot, humid climates that ECHO republished the book. It treats both vegetables that are well adapted to such climates and special techniques to grow some temperate vegetables that can be difficult but...
    635.099 DAH | PD.005