Product Description: [MP3-CD audiobook format in Vinyl case. *NOTE: The MP3-CD format requires a compatible audio CD player.][Read by David Drummond]Foreword by Warren E. Buffett If you had the resources to accomplish something great in the world, what would you do? Legendary investor Warren E...read more

Product Description: Facing new challenges with respect to sustainable agriculture and rural development strategies for low-income countries, related to global environmental change and globalization of markets, an interdisciplinary Wageningen University and Research Centre group set out to draw lessons from the DLO-IC projects of the last eight years...read more

Product Description: Less-favoured areas with limited agricultural potential or difficult access conditions, support 40 percent of the world's rural population suffering from chronic poverty. While agricultural innovations and rural development programs have begun to be implemented within developing countries, they do not address the specific obstacles faced by this large population...read more

Product Description: Over the last twenty years the proportion of development cooperation resources earmarked for agricultural development has dwindled to between six and seven per cent of total bi- and multilateral Official Development Assistance. This is despite the fact that eighty per cent of the world's poor live in rural agricultural areas and that the poor are disproportionately affected when political, military and natural events lead to regional or global food shortages...read more

Product Description: The majority of the world's poor depend directly or indirectly on agriculture. Despite the strong linkages between broad-based agricultural growth and poverty reduction, international support to agriculture sharply declined from the late 1980s...read more

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Product Description: * The indispensable follow-up to Reasons for Hope* Recommends action to improve rural living standardsFrom an outside perspective that contrasts the personal, firsthand views of the first text, the authors impart critical, dynamic ideas for improving the lives of those in rural communities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: * Eighteen inspirational rural development success stories* Covers Africa, Asia, and Latin AmericaIn 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 more

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Product Description: Poverty is spreading. There are now as many people living in absolute poverty—almost a billion in the rural Third World alone—as lived on the entire planet only a century ago. Yet poverty continues to be shrouded in mystery. Consider that: Four-fifths of the world's poor live in rural areas; About 340 million people worldwide are currently chronically ill from malnutrition; Over 500 million do not get enough calories to do a full day's labor; At a time when enough grain is being produced to provide everyone in the world with twice the daily minimum caloric requirements, global hunger is at an all-time high; Half again as many rural women—almost 600 million—live in absolute poverty today as did 20 years...read more

Product Description: Book by Uphoff, Norman