Reasons for hope : instructive experiences in rural development

Contributor(s): Krishna, Anirudh | Uphoff, Norman Thomas | Esman, Milton JMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: West Hartford, Conn. : Kumarian Press, 1997Description: vii, 322 p. : illustrationsISBN: 1565490649 (alk. paper); 9781565490642; 1565490630 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9781565490635Subject(s): Rural development | Agricultural development projects | Human services | Natural resourcesDDC classification: 307.14
Contents:
The Grameen Bank story : rural credit in Bangladesh / Muhammad Yunus -- The Orangi Pilot Project : uplifting a periurban settlement near Karachi, Pakistan / Akhter Hameed Khan -- The Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee : how BRAC learned to meet rural people's needs through local action / F.H. Abed and A.M.R. Chowdhury -- SANASA : the savings and credit cooperative movement in Sri Lanka / P.A. Kiriwandeniya -- Six-S : building upon traditional social organizations in francophone West Africa / Bernard J. Lecomte and Anirudh Krishna -- DESEC : thirty years of community organization in Bolivia / Juan Demeure and Edgar Guardia -- The AMUL dairy cooperatives : putting the means of development into the hands of small producers in India / V. Kurien -- Plan Puebla : an agricultural development program for low-income farmers in Mexico / Heliodoro Díaz Cisneros [and others] -- Farmer-to-farmer experimentation and extension : integrated rural development for smallholders in Guatemala / Anirudh Krishna with Roland Bunch -- The National Irrigation Administration's participatory irrigation management program in the Philippines / Benjamin U. Bagadion -- Farmer organization in Gal Oya : improving irrigation management in Sri Lanka / C.M. Wijayaratna and Norman Uphoff -- Integrated crop pest management with farmer participation in Indonesia / Ida Nyoman Oka -- The Population and Community Development Association in Thailand / Mechai Viravaidya -- The Iringa Nutrition Project : child survival and development in Tanzania / Anirudh Krishna with Urban Jonsson and Wilbald Lorri -- The self-help rural water supply program in Malawi / Anirudh Krishna with Lindesay H. Robertson -- A Haitian peasant tree chronicle : adaptive evolution and institutional intrusion / Gerald F. Murray --Participatory watershed development and soil conservation in Rajasthan, India / Anirudh Krishna -- The CAMPFIRE Program : community-based wildlife resource management in Zimbabwe / Simon Metcalfe.
Summary: * Eighteen inspirational rural development success stories * Covers Africa, Asia, and Latin America In the personal words of international development initiators, Reasons for Hope tells true stories of what can be done to improve the lives of those in rural communities. Read individually for specific guidance, or collectively for cumulative advice on how to promote the most desirable forms of rural development, these stories offer a timely and crucial message concerning the plight of the rural poor.
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The Grameen Bank story : rural credit in Bangladesh / Muhammad Yunus --
The Orangi Pilot Project : uplifting a periurban settlement near Karachi, Pakistan / Akhter Hameed Khan --
The Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee : how BRAC learned to meet rural people's needs through local action / F.H. Abed and A.M.R. Chowdhury --
SANASA : the savings and credit cooperative movement in Sri Lanka / P.A. Kiriwandeniya --
Six-S : building upon traditional social organizations in francophone West Africa / Bernard J. Lecomte and Anirudh Krishna --
DESEC : thirty years of community organization in Bolivia / Juan Demeure and Edgar Guardia --
The AMUL dairy cooperatives : putting the means of development into the hands of small producers in India / V. Kurien --
Plan Puebla : an agricultural development program for low-income farmers in Mexico / Heliodoro Díaz Cisneros [and others] --
Farmer-to-farmer experimentation and extension : integrated rural development for smallholders in Guatemala / Anirudh Krishna with Roland Bunch --
The National Irrigation Administration's participatory irrigation management program in the Philippines / Benjamin U. Bagadion --
Farmer organization in Gal Oya : improving irrigation management in Sri Lanka / C.M. Wijayaratna and Norman Uphoff --
Integrated crop pest management with farmer participation in Indonesia / Ida Nyoman Oka --
The Population and Community Development Association in Thailand / Mechai Viravaidya --
The Iringa Nutrition Project : child survival and development in Tanzania / Anirudh Krishna with Urban Jonsson and Wilbald Lorri --
The self-help rural water supply program in Malawi / Anirudh Krishna with Lindesay H. Robertson --
A Haitian peasant tree chronicle : adaptive evolution and institutional intrusion / Gerald F. Murray --Participatory watershed development and soil conservation in Rajasthan, India / Anirudh Krishna --
The CAMPFIRE Program : community-based wildlife resource management in Zimbabwe / Simon Metcalfe.

* Eighteen inspirational rural development success stories
* Covers Africa, Asia, and Latin America

In the personal words of international development initiators, Reasons for Hope tells true stories of what can be done to improve the lives of those in rural communities. Read individually for specific guidance, or collectively for cumulative advice on how to promote the most desirable forms of rural development, these stories offer a timely and crucial message concerning the plight of the rural poor.

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