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The following links may aid you in your research of development issues. Please note that LifeWind International does not endorse any information or opinion expressed on these sites. The links are provided "as is" to aid those doing cutting-edge development research. If you discover an inactive link or would like to suggest a link be added, please e-mail us.
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- Agriculture
- Appropriate Technology
- Books
- Children
- Development - General
- Food Processing
- Health
- Microenterprise
- Monitoring and Evaluation
- Research
- Supplies
- Water and Sanitation
Agriculture
Apiservices/Beekeeping — Site is offered in four languages (English, French, Spanish, and German). This site provides links to information on beekeeping and even has a section where information may be obtained by country.
Bees for Development — An information service at the center of an international network of people and organizations involved with agriculture in developing countries. Provides information to people to strengthen their livelihoods.
Botanical.com: A Modern Herbal — Provides extensive indexes on plants and herbs, recipes, and poisons.
Christian Veterinary Mission (CVM) — Offers effective and easy to understand reference materials on animal husbandry and veterinary medicine. CVM resources are written with owners of small farms and agricultural development workers in mind.
Education Concerns for Hunger Organization (ECHO) — Provides ideas, training, technical information, and seeds critical to those working in agricultural development in developing countries. Additional knowledge bank of articles from around the world.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) — A valuable source of knowledge and information. FAO helps developing countries and countries in transition modernize, improve agriculture, improve forestry and fisheries practices, and ensure good nutrition for all.
International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM) — The WorldFish Center is an international scientific research organization whose mission is to reduce poverty and hunger by improving fisheries and aquaculture.
Appropriate Technology
Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas (ATTRA) — Features the latest in sustainable agriculture and organic farming news, events, and funding opportunities. They also make available in-depth publications on production practices, alternative crop and livestock enterprises, innovative marketing, organic certification, and highlights of local, regional, USDA, and other federal sustainable agricultural activities.
Appropriate Technology Sourcebook — Village Earth makes appropriate technology resources and information available to community-based projects through a 1050-volume Appropriate Technology Library.
Books
Discipling Nations by Darrow Miller — A powerful and convincing thesis that God's truth not only breaks the spiritual bonds of sin and death, but can free whole societies from deception and poverty. Discipling Nations will challenge, reenergize, and reequip Christians everywhere who labor to see "His kingdom come, His will be done."
Helping Health Workers Learn — An indispensable resource for all health educators. This heavily illustrated book shows how to make health education engaging and effective, while emphasizing a people-centered approach to care. It also presents strategies for effective community involvement through participatory education.
Multiplying Light and Truth through Community Health Evangelism by Stan Rowland — A book that examines the underlying philosophies, principles, training curriculums, and materials for establishing a community-based development program which is integrated into an aggressive evangelism and discipleship ministry.
Walking with the Poor by Bryant L. Myers — Theology, spirituality, and social science are synthesized on how Christian mission can contribute to overcoming poverty and dismantling systematic social evil. Myers explores Christian views of poverty, its causes, and how it is experienced differently in different cultures.
Where There is no Animal Doctor — Covers animal functions of all the major domestic animals. This book was developed to benefit rural people in areas of the world where livestock plays an important role in village life. It deals with many different animal health related topics, including disease prevention, control and treatment, and the promotion of good animal nutrition.
Where There is no Doctor — Perhaps the most widely-used health care manual for health workers, clinicians, and others involved in primary health care delivery and health promotion programs around the world.
Where There is no Vet — Explains in simple words and drawings the diagnosis and treatment of animal illness. Aims to help people keep healthy animals, and covers a wide range of topics that affect the health of livestock.
Children
The Child-to-Child Trust — Encourages and enables children and young people to promote the holistic health, well-being and development of themselves, their families and their communities worldwide. Offers many resources.
Development - General
Canadian Food for the Hungry — Provides resource links for websites, books, and speakers.
EQUIP — Equips missionaries with practical hands-on training.
Oxfam — Offers a wide variety of articles on development topics, including a great implementation manual.
One World — A global partner database that brings together more than 1500 organization from across the globe to promote sustainable development, social justice, and human rights.
Peace Corps — Volunteer overseas.
Tear Fund — Shares learning and information in an accessible and clear format. On this site the user will find everything from creating a door-size garden to the problem of domestic violence.
Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) — Provides access to information for agriculture and rural development.
World Bank Group — Development Bank that provides loans, policy advice, technical assistance, and knowledge sharing services to low and middle income countries to reduce poverty.
USAID Development Experience Clearinghouse — The largest online resource for USAID funded technical and program documentation. Search the online database and download USAID documents for free.
World Neighbors — Development organization that works with some of the most remote and marginalized communities in ecologically fragile areas of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Online store offers many publications for purchase.
World Resources Institute — Environmental think tank that offers research, articles, and publications to protect the Earth and improve people's lives.
Food Processing
Australian Food News Bookshop — Allows you to browse through numerous categories of books on food-related topics.
Solar Cooking Archive — Provides information and resources on solar cooking.
Health
Hesperian Foundation — A non-profit publisher of books and educational materials that helps nationals take the lead in their own health care and organize to improve health conditions in their communities.
HIV and AIDS Survey Indicators Database — Provides an easily accessible comprehensive source of information on HIV and AIDS indicators derived from sample surveys. The database allows the user to produce tables for specific countries by selecting background characteristics, as well as country reports.
HIV Prevention and Health Behavior Resource Library — A library of research, programming tools, news articles, and other resources related to HIV prevention and behavior change.
Medical Assistance Programs International (MAP) — Health and hope for a hurting world.
Strategies of Hope — The book and video series aims to promote informed, effective, community-based approaches to HIV and AIDS, as well as gender and sexual health, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Teaching-Aids at Low Cost (TALC) — Supplies low cost health care, training, and teaching materials to raise the standards of health care and reduce poverty worldwide.
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) — Independent agency that provides economic, development, and humanitarian assistance around the world in support of the foreign policy goals of the United States.
World Health Organization (WHO) — Objective is to attain the highest possible level of health for all peoples.
Microenterprise
EnterpriseWorks/Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA) — Offers articles, technical notes, and research papers on productive, environmentally sensitive enterprises.
Grameen-Banking for the Poor (GB) — Reversed conventional banking practices by removing the need for collateral and has created a banking system based on mutual trust, accountability, participation, and creativity.
MicroLINKS — A knowledge-sharing site designed to improve the impact of USAID-funded microenterprise programs and activities. MicroLINKS allows the Microenterprise Development office to share cutting-edge research.
Opportunity International — Provides small loans (sometimes as little as $50) to poor entrepreneurs in order to transform the lives of individuals, families, and entire communities worldwide.
Small Enterprise Education and Promotion (SEEP) Network — An international network and promoter of best practices in enterprise development and financial services committed to reducing poverty through the power of enterprise.
Monitoring and Evaluation
Eldis Gateway to Development — Provides information on a wide variety of issues including development, policy, practice, and research. There are 18,000 online full-test documents that can be easily searched. Many articles on Monitoring and Evaluation are available on this site.
Research
Academic Info — Educational subject directory, online degree program, and test preparation resources.
CIA World Fact Book — Thoroughly provides information on each country including population, main source of income, climate, birth and death rates, etc.
CountryReports.org — Cultural, historical, and statistical country information.
Gapminder — A non-profit venture for development and provision of free software that visualizes human development.
Global Health Department — Provides information and data on countries and cities around throughout the world.
Lonely Planet — Provides information on the regions of the world including weather, health, culture, history, etc.
Natural Resources Institute — Internationally recognized multi-disciplinary center for research, consultancy, and education for the management of natural and human resources.
Wikipedia — World encyclopedia full of information, articles, current events, etc. The site is viewable in 10 different languages.
Suppliers
Forestry Suppliers, Inc. — Direct-mail supplier for natural resource professionals worldwide offering supplies in such fields as forestry, horticulture, wildlife, meteorology, first-aid, etc.
Lamotte Company — Product catalogs, newsletters, MSDS, new product information, technical tips, and instructions. Have products and kits available for potable and waste water, aquariums and fish farming, soil testing, etc.
Lehman's Non-Electric Catalog — Lehman's ships old-fashioned, high-quality merchandise all over the world. These products can be helpful in areas where electricity is non-existent or unreliable, or where a man-made or natural disaster has occurred.
Water and Sanitation
Lifewater International — Christian training organization that understands the need in our world for safe water, improved hygiene, and sanitation. Site provides Water to World technical notes.
Lifewater Wells Canada — Provides online resources, including a 100-page manual to help those who want to drill a well or repair a hand pump.
Living Waters for the World — Trains and equips church mission groups and others to share the gift of clean water with communities in need, and to empower their partners to continue to purify their water on an ongoing basis.
Solar Water Disinfection (SODIS) — A practical, affordable, and scientifically proven method for sanitizing drinking water.
Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) — An international partnership of the world's leading development agencies concerned with improving sector policies, practices, and capacities to serve poor people.
