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Title Reasons for hope : instructive experiences in rural development / editors, Anirudh Krishna, Norman Uphoff, Milton J. Esman
Published West Hartford, Conn. : Kumarian Press, 1997

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 W'PONDS  307.1412 Kri/Rfh  AVAILABLE
Description vii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Instructive Engagements in Rural Development -- 1. The Grameen Bank Story: Rural Credit in Bangladesh / Muhammad Yunus -- 2. The Orangi Pilot Project: Uplifting a Periurban Settlement near Karachi, Pakistan / Akhter Hameed Khan -- 3. 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 -- 4. SANASA: The Savings and Credit Cooperative Movement in Sri Lanka / P. A. Kiriwandeniya -- 5. Six-S: Building upon Traditional Social Organizations in Francophone West Africa / Bernard J. Lecomte and Anirudh Krishna -- 6. DESEC: Thirty Years of Community Organization in Bolivia / Juan Demeure and Edgar Guardia -- 7. The AMUL Dairy Cooperatives: Putting the Means of Development into the Hands of Small Producers in India / V. Kurien -- 8. Plan Puebla: An Agricultural Development Program for Low-Income Farmers in Mexico / Heliodoro Diaz Cisneros, Leobardo Jimenez Sanchez, Reggie J. Laird and Antonio Turrent Fernandez -- 9. Farmer-To-Farmer Experimentation and Extension: Integrated Rural Development for Smallholders in Guatemala / Anirudh Krishna and Roland Bunch -- 10. The National Irrigation Administration's Participatory Irrigation Management Program in the Philippines / Benjamin U. Bagadion -- 11. Farmer Organization in Gal Oya: Improving Irrigation Management in Sri Lanka / C. M. Wijayaratna and Norman Uphoff -- 12. Integrated Crop Pest Management with Farmer Participation in Indonesia / Ida Nyoman Oka -- 13. The Population and Community Development Association in Thailand / Mechai Viravaidya -- 14. The Iringa Nutrition Project: Child Survival and Development in Tanzania / Anirudh Krishna, Urban Jonsson and Wilbald Lorri -- 15. The Self-Help Rural Water Supply Program in Malawi / Anirudh Krishna and Lindesay H. Robertson -- 16. A Haitian Peasant Tree Chronicle: Adaptive Evolution and Institutional Intrusion / Gerald F. Murray -- 17. Participatory Watershed Development and Soil Conservation in Rajasthan, India / Anirudh Krishna -- 18. The CAMPFIRE Program: Community-Based Wildlife Resource Management in Zimbabwe / Simon Metcalfe -- 19. Reasons for Hope
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-304) and index
Subject Agricultural development projects -- Developing countries.
Human services -- Developing countries.
Natural resources -- Developing countries -- Management.
Rural development -- Developing countries.
Author Esman, Milton J. (Milton Jacob), 1918-2015.
Krishna, Anirudh, 1958-
Uphoff, Norman Thomas.
LC no. 96026552
ISBN 1565490630 (paperback: alk. paper)
1565490649 (alk. paper)