Rural Development Initiatives
Rural Development Initiatives
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Activities for Oral Language Development $10.99 Help your students become excellent communicators. Use a wide variety of activities to encourage students to develop their speaking and listening skills: |
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IBIS YANGZHOU DEVELOPMENT ZONE $159 Ibis Yangzhou Development Zone offers fabulous value in the central Jiangsu Province of Southeastern China. Conveniently situated next to a shopping center in the Yangzhou economic development zone, the hotel features 169 modern, comfortable rooms, alongwith a business corner, a vibrant bar, a restaurant and a 24-hour snack service. Ibis Yangzhou Development Zone offers complimentary broadband Internet access, and is located just 20 minutes from the local train station. |
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Work, Female Empowerment and Economic Development $160 Accumulation of assets to enable the diversification of activities has been established as crucial in helping the rural poor escape poverty. The empowerment of women has been identified as a way to overcome inefficiencies in the allocation of resources within the family and so improve agrarian households’ productivity. However, achieving diversification is not necessarily empowering for women and some initiatives may worsen their position.This book uses the information collected in original household surveys conducted in rural areas in four countries to investigate the links between women’s position in the household, diversification strategies, labour market participation and poverty reduction. The book centres on country-specific chapters that provide an in-depth focus on an issue of relevance to the location and that tease out the interplay between female empowerment and development in that context. In particular, the chapters examine:Landlessness in EthiopiaFeminization of the agricultural labour market in Andhra Pradesh, IndiaFemale labour supply and women’s power within the household in UgandaDisadvantages faced by female-headed households in ZimbabweThe analysis calls for caution in assuming that labour market expansion necessarily acts to empower women and emphasizes the role female access to assets can have in facilitating diversification and escaping poverty. It will appeal to all those studying development economics, with particular interest in areas such as diversification,poverty and female empowerment. |
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AN AGRARIAN HISTORY OF THE MWENEZI DISTRICT $99.99 The study examines continuity and change in the agrarian history of the Mwenezi district, southern Zimbabwe since 1980. It analyses agrarian reforms, agrarian practices and development initiatives in the district and situates them in the localised livelihood strategies of different people within Dinhe Communal Area and Mangondi Resettlement Area in view of the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) since 2000. The study also examines the livelihood opportunities and challenges presented by the FTLRP to the inhabitants of Mwenezi. Land reform can be an opportunity that can help communities in drought prone districts like Mwenezi to attain food security and reduce dependence on food handouts from donor agencies and the government. The land reform presented the new farmers with multiple land use patterns and livelihood opportunities. In addition, the study locates the current programme in the context of previous post-colonial agrarian reforms in Mwenezi. It also emphasizes the importance of diversifying rural livelihood portfolios and argues for the establishment of smallholder irrigation schemes in Mwenezi using water from the Manyuchi dam, the fourth largest dam in Zimbabwe… |
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Approaches to diversity: Multimodality and representational ethics in Making Our Mark. $49.99 While diversity is ostensibly welcomed and valued at universities nationwide, representatives of universities have not always adequately attended to the ethical dimensions of claiming diversity as an institutional value. This dissertation, Approaches to Diversity: Multimodality and Representational Ethics in Making Our Mark, presents a model of how those in composition studies can (1) foreground ethical dimensions of diversity initiatives and discourses and (2) place the field's current concern with multimodality in relation to such work. The research is informed by qualitative case study data gathered in the context of a project in which students from historically underrepresented groups at a rural, Midwestern, technological university combined written narrative and web development in order to publish stories about how they adjust and succeed in the majority white male institution. The data gathered is based on observations of project meetings, work in collaborative web development sessions, and interviews with project participants. Composition theory (Yancey 2004, Shipka 2007); feminist theory (Mohanty 2003, Moya 2002); literacy theory (Cope and Kalantzis 2000); and theories of research methodology (Tuhiwai Smith 1999) inform the interpretation of data. This research indicates that a goal-oriented approach to diversity is counterproductive; that micro-level practices and relations provide useful points of focus; and that it is important for university representatives who are usually considered to be outside the formation of diversity to examine and respond to our own implication in diversity-related work. The research also shows that the role of multimodality in constructing unconventional representations of difference was limited by institutional and contextual factors, as well as by a lack of available designs for representing the complexities of students identities. Ultimately, the methodological dimension of representational ethics in the project is |
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Approaches to diversity: Multimodality and representational ethics in Making Our Mark. $49.99 While diversity is ostensibly welcomed and valued at universities nationwide, representatives of universities have not always adequately attended to the ethical dimensions of claiming diversity as an institutional value. This dissertation, Approaches to Diversity: Multimodality and Representational Ethics in Making Our Mark, presents a model of how those in composition studies can (1) foreground ethical dimensions of diversity initiatives and discourses and (2) place the field's current concern with multimodality in relation to such work. The research is informed by qualitative case study data gathered in the context of a project in which students from historically underrepresented groups at a rural, Midwestern, technological university combined written narrative and web development in order to publish stories about how they adjust and succeed in the majority white male institution. The data gathered is based on observations of project meetings, work in collaborative web development sessions, and interviews with project participants. Composition theory (Yancey 2004, Shipka 2007); feminist theory (Mohanty 2003, Moya 2002); literacy theory (Cope and Kalantzis 2000); and theories of research methodology (Tuhiwai Smith 1999) inform the interpretation of data. This research indicates that a goal-oriented approach to diversity is counterproductive; that micro-level practices and relations provide useful points of focus; and that it is important for university representatives who are usually considered to be outside the formation of diversity to examine and respond to our own implication in diversity-related work. The research also shows that the role of multimodality in constructing unconventional representations of difference was limited by institutional and contextual factors, as well as by a lack of available designs for representing the complexities of students identities. Ultimately, the methodological dimension of representational ethics in the project is |
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Asian Organization Introduction $29.71 Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 388. Not illustrated. Chapters: Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs, Colombo Plan, Ekal Vidyalaya, Open Constitution Initiative, Developmental Informatics Lab, Jelajah Malaysia, Kolkata Municipal Corporation, Indian Institute of Architects, Bhima Sangha, Amateur Radio Society of India, Hong Kong Aviation Club, Gaudiya Math, International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism, Youth Renewal Fund, Ma’avak Sotzialisti, World Union of Jewish Students, Project Madurai, Israel Football Association, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Tabitha Cambodia, Vigorous Burmese Student Warriors, Organisasi Amatir Radio Indonesia, Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement, the Stenographers’ Guild, Concerned for Working Children, Boao Forum for Asia, Dakshinachitra, Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants, New Profile, Integrated Rural Technology Centre, Mongolian Amateur Radio Society, Nesohr, Geological Society of India, Sahitya Akademi, Mongolian Radio Sport Federation, Korea Baduk Association, Bat Shalom, American Football Israel, Malaysian Amateur Radio Transmitters’ Society, Chinese Weiqi Association, Colombo Plan Staff College, Palestinian Media Watch, Mahatma Gandhi Foundation, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Vikalp, Singapore Weiqi Association, Higher Population Council-General Secretariat, Bersatu, Scouting and Guiding in India, Young Meretz-Yachad, Measi, Palestinian Hydrology Group, Al-Fatat, Itim, Andhra Pradesh Motor Sports Club, Multimedia Development Corporation, Ideographic Rapporteur Group, the Abraham Fund Initiatives, Israel Union for Environmental Defense, Bimkom, Antrak, National Atmospheric Research Laboratory, Professors for a Strong Israel, Rashtriya Jagran Manch, Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research, Zo Artzeinu, Bharatiya Gorkha |
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Building Competitiveness in Africa’s Agriculture: A Guide to Value Chain Concepts and Applications $39.77 Value chain–based approaches offer tremendous scope for market-based improvements in production, productivity, rural economy diversification, and household incomes, but are often covered by literature that is too conceptual or heavily focused on analysis. This has created a gap in the information available to planners, practitioners, and value chain participants. Furthermore, few references are available on how these approaches can be applied specifically to developing agriculture in Africa.’Building Competitiveness in Africa’s Agriculture: A Guide to Value Chain Concepts and Applications’ describes practical implementation approaches and illustrates them with scores of real African agribusiness case studies. Using these examples, the ‘Guide’ presents a range of concepts, analytical tools, and methodologies centered on the value chain that can be used to design, implement, and evaluate agricultural and agribusiness development initiatives. It stresses principles of market focus, collaboration, information sharing, and innovation.The ‘Guide’ begins by examining core concepts and issues related to value chains. A brief literature review then focuses on five topics of particular relevance to African agricultural value chains. These topics address challenges faced by value chain participants and practitioners that resonate through the many cases described in the book.The core of the book presents methodological tools and approaches that blend important value chain concepts with the topics and with sound business principles. The tools and case studies have been selected for their usefulness in supporting market-driven, private-sector initiatives to improve value chains. The ‘Guide’ offers 13 implementation approaches, presented within the implementation cycle of a value chain program, followed by descriptions of actual cases. Roughly 60 percent of the examples are from Africa, while the rest come from Europe, Latin America, and Asia.The |
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Challenges for Inclusion: Educational and Social Studies From Britain and the Indian Sub-Continent $99 This book reviews current controversies and dilemmas in the educational and social development of children and adolescents in Britain, India, Bangladesh and Nepal. Britain is contrasted with the Indian Sub-Continent because in theory at least, Britain has policies which should enable young people to be fully integrated within the educational system, whatever the degree of their original disability, while in the Indian Sub-Continent such educational opportunities are denied to many children because of problems of social structure, values, and poverty. The rights of the disabled to full inclusion are emphasized in two chapters by Sharon Rustemier. But a chapter by Dame Mary Warnock whose report to government designed the system for educational inclusion, shows that British policies for inclusion of the disabled are not working. The chapter by Bagley outlines the ‘poverty of education’ in Britain, which means that in a highly stratified society many children – both poor and disabled – are excluded from mainstream education by decisions based on school policies and neighbourhood disadvantage.India in contrast is a culture in which inclusion of the disabled within educational systems is marred by economic poverty, as well as deliberate policies which deny Dalits (formerly known as ‘Untouchables’) access to many kinds of educational opportunity. Nevertheless, there are pockets of good practice in India including the legal framework for action, which chapters by Jha and Jaya identify. The history of educational initiatives for social and educational of the very poor of Bangladesh are reviewed in detail since these initiatives illustrate the work of a unique NGO (BRAC – the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee) which offers advancement for the poorest of the poor in a nation that is significantly poorer than India. Nepal too is also one of the poorest nations on earth, and we offer a detailed account of the trafficking of women and girls from Nepal into Indian |
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Challenges for Inclusion: Educational and Social Studies From Britain and the Indian Sub-Continent $22.02 This book reviews current controversies and dilemmas in the educational and social development of children and adolescents in Britain, India, Bangladesh and Nepal. Britain is contrasted with the Indian Sub-Continent because in theory at least, Britain has policies which should enable young people to be fully integrated within the educational system, whatever the degree of their original disability, while in the Indian Sub-Continent such educational opportunities are denied to many children because of problems of social structure, values, and poverty. The rights of the disabled to full inclusion are emphasized in two chapters by Sharon Rustemier. But a chapter by Dame Mary Warnock whose report to government designed the system for educational inclusion, shows that British policies for inclusion of the disabled are not working. The chapter by Bagley outlines the ‘poverty of education’ in Britain, which means that in a highly stratified society many children – both poor and disabled – are excluded from mainstream education by decisions based on school policies and neighbourhood disadvantage.India in contrast is a culture in which inclusion of the disabled within educational systems is marred by economic poverty, as well as deliberate policies which deny Dalits (formerly known as ‘Untouchables’) access to many kinds of educational opportunity. Nevertheless, there are pockets of good practice in India including the legal framework for action, which chapters by Jha and Jaya identify. The history of educational initiatives for social and educational of the very poor of Bangladesh are reviewed in detail since these initiatives illustrate the work of a unique NGO (BRAC – the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee) which offers advancement for the poorest of the poor in a nation that is significantly poorer than India. Nepal too is also one of the poorest nations on earth, and we offer a detailed account of the trafficking of women and girls from Nepal into Indian |
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Climate Change Adaptation and International Development: Making Development Cooperation More Effective $58.1 Climate change impacts upon the world’s poorest most heavily. It is therefore essential that international development initiatives focus on improving the ability of developing countries to adapt to the effects of climate change. This book, a product of research by the JICA-RI (Research Institute of the Japan International Cooperation Agency), examines climate change adaptation from the perspective of development cooperation in order to provide useful lessons for those engaged in research, policy and practice in this vital area. In this book the editors have brought together a wide range of case studies from across Africa and Asia, covering urban and rural areas and different sectors including water, agriculture and disaster management, in order to examine the following: o high-resolution climate change projection in Asia and how this can be used in planning appropriate adaptation responses o in-depth case studies of climate change projections, social, economic and environmental impact and vulnerability assessment and adaptation in rural Thailand and urban Philippines o cases across Africa for which climate data is less readily available and alternative approaches need to be adopted o the current situation amongst international donors o emerging issues caused by climate change In the introductory section, the editors draw together the full implications from the case studies to discuss how international communities can support adaptation in developing countries and to give an assessment of bilateral projects. They reflect on the lessons learned and offer recommendations for future research and international development cooperation. |
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Cooperative Efforts of Libraries $3 Explore a wide variety of cooperative initiatives—at regional, statewide, and international levels! This book examines a wide variety of cooperative efforts and consortia in libraries, both geographically and in terms of such activities as digitization and cooperative reference services. You’ll learn how libraries are cooperating regionally, on the statewide level, and internationally to provide better service to all kinds of users. Cooperative Efforts of Libraries explores aspects of cooperation that include remote storage, virtual reference service, collection development, staff training and instruction, preservation, interlibrary loan, and international cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean. From the editors: “Cooperation used to mean primarily cataloging via OCLC, interlibrary loan, and perhaps mutual borrowing privileges, but economics and technology are combining to broaden the playing field considerably. This collection reflects this diversity.” Part one of Cooperative Efforts of Libraries highlights cooperation in regional and statewide activity. You’ll learn about: Metro, a multitype cooperative designed to coordinate the implementation of virtual reference among libraries in New York City cooperation between remote, rural, and isolated libraries in the Northern Great Plains and Rocky Mountain West regions, including the creation of the Online Dakota Information Network (ODIN) and similar organizations a Virtual Library of Virginia project in which the highly specialized skills of librarians were used to enhance vendor-supplied MARC records for a much more accessible full-text database the efforts of each university within the state system in Florida to contribute digitized versions of rare and specialized Floridiana to a joint electronic collection which is available to everyone in the state a centrally funded project to support the information literacy efforts of librarians at each |