Download or read book Improving Traditional Rural Technologies written by Jeffrey James and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-13 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contends that large numbers in the Third World will become reliant on traditional rural technologies over the next thirty to forty years. The author is concerned that policy responses to this problem are insufficient and advocates a broader analytic framework to tackle the problem.
Download or read book Rural Dairy Technology written by C. O'Connor and published by ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD). This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milk as a food; The composition of milk; Genetic factors; Breed and individuality of the cow; Environmental factors; Milk chemistry; Physical status of milk; pH and acidity; Milk constituents; Microbiology; Bacteria; Moulds; Yeasts; Viruses; Milk microbiology; Microbiology of butter; Clean milk production; Sources of contamination; Cooling milk; Milk reception, dairy accounting and record keeping; Reception; Dairy accounting and record keeping; Milk processing; Milk separation; Buttermaking with fresh milk or cream; Buttermaking with sour whole milk; Ghee, butter oil and dry butterfat; Cheesemaking using fresh milk; Cheesemaking with sour skim milk; Milk fermentations; Cleaning, sanitising and sterilising dairy equipment; Dairy water supplies; Chemical used for cleaning; Cleaning procedure; Sampling and analysis of milk, milk products and water; Sampling; Milk pH; Titratable acidity test; Alcohol test; Clot-on-boiling test; Fat determination; Specific gravity of milk; Total solids (TS) in milk; Formaldehyde in milk; Methylene blue reduction test; Resazurin 10-minute test; Sediment or visible dirt test; Moisture content of butter; Salt content of butter; Protein content of milk by formaldehyde titration; Estimation of hardness in water; Dairy building design and construction; Site selection; Type of building; Arrangement and installation of equipment.
Download or read book Technologies for Rural Development written by Unesco and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UNESCO pub. Conference report and recommendations on choice of technology for rural development in developing countries - examines components of basic needs strategy, relevance of basic education in science, etc., and includes information on intermediate technology and alternative energy sources. Illustrations and references. Conference held in Brussels 1980 May 19 to 22.
Download or read book Technology and Rural Women written by Iftikhar Ahmed and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1985, Technology and Rural Women synthesizes the fragmented empirical evidence and the wide range of theoretical approaches on the effects of modernisation on women in the developing world. Using a multi-disciplinary methodology, empirical and sectoral overviews, and country case studies, it draws together the literature to clarify the issues and the policies. The book begins with a conceptual overview and analyses the applicability of traditional theories of technological change and impact on gender based distributional questions. It proceeds to compare the African and Asian experience, examines the African situation regionally, and then as a set of four country case studies. The authors find that the imperfections of rural factor markets have contributed to women’s concentration in labour intensive sectors, marked by low productivity and low returns. Biases in the agrarian structure and the extension services are largely responsible for the Institutionalisation of discrimination against women. Finally, the volume identifies the social, economic, and technical constraints to the diffusion of technologies relevant to rural women’s tasks. In the final chapter the book’s analysis is further refined and extended, so that its conclusions to both theory and policy making are clearly brought out, and areas of future research identified. This book is an essential read for students and scholars of labour economics, women’s studies and economics in general.
Download or read book OECD Rural Studies Rural Well being Geography of Opportunities written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-05 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rural Well-being: Geography of Opportunities presents the latest iteration on this policy framework, reflecting several important changes in rural development in recent years. Fully taking into account the variety of situations characterising rural regions, the new policy framework leverages improved data and analysis while broadening the scope from economic focus to encompass the environmental and social dimensions of well-being.
Download or read book Information Technology and Development written by Jeffrey James and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attempts to bring the benefits of information technology in the form of the internet to developing countries have, to date, foundered on the belief that this requires the beneficiaries to access the technology directly. As a result, the perceived huge benefits of such an enterprise have often failed to materialise. This original contribution to the debate on developing countries and IT suggests that the benefits of the internet can be passed on via an intermediary. That is, what matters is not the internet itself, rather its ability to provide information that can be made relevant and useful locally. Intermediaries are arguably more likely to provide such information and hence more likely to promote what Amartya Sen called individual 'functionings', for example the ability to be free of illness. Jeffrey James is an impressive servant to the discipline of development studies, here he brings together previously fragmented literatures to break new ground in internet intermediation. Information Technology and Development will interest development economists and practitioners in equal amounts.
Download or read book Transfer Adoption and Diffusion of Technology for Small and Cottage Industries written by Rizwanul Islam and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 1992 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articles; annex presents the Proceedings of the International Seminar on Transfer of Technology for SCIs Amongst Developing Countries, held at New Delhi in May 1990.
Download or read book Rural Industrialisation written by T. M. Dak and published by Northern Book Centre. This book was released on 1989 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Viewed mainly as the growth of manufacturing sector as opposed to agriculture and the increased use of inanimate sources of power in the production of goods and services, rural industrialization offers the greatest scope for absorbing the existing and growing labour force outside the field of agriculture. However, rural industrial scene continues to be characterised by the concentration of labour force in agriculture, predominance of traditional crafts, low levels of technology, hereditary mode of production, poor productivity and returns and low labour efficiency and utilisation. Besides glorification of traditional crafts and self-employment, caste-industry nexus, and above all policy bias in favour of agriculture as against industry and large and medium capital-intensive industries as against small village and cottage industries also worked as strong impediments to the development of rural crafts. Drawing from the nationwide experiences, this book examines the problems of the growth and modernisation of rural industries from socio-economic perspectives and probes into the organisational and technology system underlying their production structure with all its implications an ramifications. The reversal of the policy favouring large modern industry sector and the spread of tiny small industries throughout the country with full package of organisational, technical, financial and marketing support in adequate measure have been strongly advocated. In addition, the integration of the development of rural industries with the overall programme of industrialisation was emphasized.
Download or read book Seed multiplication by resource limited farmers written by FAO. and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FAO, through its Seed and Plant Genetics Resources Service, is conducting a series of expert consultations, workshops and conferences to generate ideas, develop methodoligies and facilitate initiatives aimed at strengthening on-farm seed multiplication (the informal seed system) thereby adressing the seed security needs of smallhoder farmers ... .
Download or read book Technology Globalization and Poverty written by Jeffrey James and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the theoretical and empirical interactions between globalization, technology and poverty. Jeffrey James studies the effect of information technology on patterns of globalization and explores how such patterns can be altered to reduce the growing global divide between rich and poor nations.
Download or read book Technological Capability in the Informal Sector written by Carlos Maldonado and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 1992 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology plays a key role in the informal sectors of developing countries, yet little is known about the acquisition of technical knowhow or the adaptation of technology.
Download or read book Acquisition of Technological Capability in Small Firms in Developing Countries written by H. Romijn and published by Springer. This book was released on 1998-11-18 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative examination of how small firms in developing countries acquire technological capability - the knowledge and skills required to operate technology effectively and to adapt it to local conditions. It fills a gap in the established literature on technological capability, which has neglected the small-scale sector in spite of the important role it plays in employment generation. The author develops a methodology for a quantitative assessment of the learning process, using case material from the small-scale capital goods sector in Pakistan's Punjab Province.
Download or read book Technological Systems and Development written by Jeffrey James and published by Springer. This book was released on 1998-06-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the notion of a technological system and more specifically the distinction between modern and traditional technological systems. Using highly disaggregated data for a range of sectors and developing countries we have applied this distinction to micro - as well as macro-economic policy issues. By identifying distinct systems of technology in a multisectoral model of the economy we have been able to quantify certain aspects of those systems within a rigorous conceptual framework. The relationship between income distribution, the choice of technology and its subsequent impact is examined in detail.
Download or read book Technology and Innovation in the International Economy written by Charles Cooper and published by United Nations University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two major review essays - Jeffrey James on microelectronic technology and Martin Fransman on biotechnology - assess the impact of these new technologies on production, trade, employment and welfare in developing countries.
Download or read book Globalization Information Technology and Development written by J. James and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-02-24 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeffrey James develops the insights of the often separate literatures on globalization and information technology and demonstrates their interdependence. The central insight is that globalization is mainly a technological phenomenon, driven by influences exerted on international trade and foreign investment by various forms of information technology. Developing countries, however, are not sharing equally in the gains from globalization thus induced by the new technologies. These gains tend to be concentrated among a narrow group of relatively advanced countries and, moreover within some of those countries information technology appears to exacerbate existing income inequalities.
Download or read book The State Technology and Industrialization in Africa written by J. James and published by Springer. This book was released on 1995-04-12 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Industrialization in Africa has relied heavily on state institutions of various kinds and on the inflow of foreign capital, especially foreign aid. With particular reference to technology and on the basis of a wide range of case-studies, this book explains how these features of the African experience have jointly contributed not only to the many cases of failure in the public sector, but also to a number of exceptional cases that can be regarded as success stories.
Download or read book New Technologies for Rural Development Having Potential of Commercialisation written by and published by Allied Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles; with reference to India.
