Publications catalog: Agriculture and environment
Getting to Market
CRS staff and partners worked with farmers and other stakeholders in Africa, India, Latin America, and Southeast Asia over the last five years to develop agricultural business enterprises.
Working Together, Learning Together
Documents CRS’ experience with an agroenterprise “learning alliance”—a participatory approach to learning that aims to accelerate institutional change and deepen the level of impact.
Agriculture and Environment Strategy, 2009–2014
Lays out the principles that will guide CRS’ support to poor, rural, agricultural communities over the next five years and sets new goals for our work in urban and peri-urban areas.
A Participatory Guide to Developing Partnerships, Area Resource Assessment and Planning Together
Lays the groundwork for rural agroenterprise projects by leading service providers through an asset-based analysis of the area where a project takes place, a social profile analysis of the client group(s), and the establishment of an agroenterprise working group.
Homestead Gardening
This manual represents a compilation of techniques and lessons learned from homestead gardening programs successfully implemented through the Consortium for Southern Africa Food Emergency (C-SAFE) in Lesotho.
A Market Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Agroenterprise Development
Practical advice on empowering farmer group to make informed decisions for their economic development, based on an analysis of their surroundings, assets, and skills.
Participatory Market Chain Analysis for Smallholder Producers
Help for practitioners in selecting market chains, conducting rapid market surveys, creating business plans, conducting market chain analyses, and other tasks in agroenterprise development.
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- Human Trafficking
A report on research commissioned by CRS and the Kosova Population Foundation into the trafficking of human beings in Kosovo.
Education how-to: Child-Led Health Edu…
Examines methods of mobilizing children as leaders in the effort to create more healthful school environments and communities.
Innovations in HIV programming
“Innovations” bulletins highlight CRS projects and programs that are successful because of their inventive and creative approach.
News
- For Bread or Soccer, Egypt Is Ready for a Riot
20 Nov 2009, 1:55 pmHistory has proven there are two subjects that will move Egyptians into the streets in riotous numbers, crashing windows, battling each other and defying an army of club-wielding riot police.
- 8 Militants Killed in Reported U.S. Strike in Northwestern Pakistan
20 Nov 2009, 7:12 amThe area of the attack is believed to hold many insurgents who fled from an army offensive elsewhere in the Afghan border region.
- Diplomatic Memo: Clinton Seen as Obama’s Key Link to Afghan Leader
20 Nov 2009, 6:31 amThe role thrusts Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton into the thick of a critical international problem.