Some Useful Links

There is nothing as bad as a crummy web link, but there is nothing as satisfying as a really good one - it can take you places that you have never heard of, where you can learn things that you only imagined. These links have been tested extensively and they either point directly to useful Appropriate Technology information or they point to someplace useful in other ways (e.g. a source of good links). I promise. Feel free to post your own favorites (its nice if you provide a little info with each), or send me individual ones and I'll group them all together into a master list.

http://www.i4at.org/library.html#water – Institute for Appropriate Technology (USA)
http://journeytoforever.org/at_link.html - Intermediate Technology Development Group
http://www.itdg.org/ - the group Practical Action (formerly ITDG)
http://livelihoodtechnology.org/ - more ITDG resources on intermediate technology
http://www.alternative-finance.org.uk/en/ - ITDG’s microfinance literature resource
http://www.itdgpublishing.org.uk/ - more ITDG, they are distributed all over the web
http://www.developmentbookshop.com/ - even more ITDG! Good book title resource (
http://www.researchinformation.co.uk/apte.php - Appropriate Technology magazine
http://www.farmafrica.org.uk/ - FARM Africa, farmer assistance group
http://www.mamud.com/ - ethnovetrinarianism, agroforestry, food security in Africa
http://www.yearofmicrocredit.org/ - International Year of Microcredit 2005
http://www.foodsecurity.net/ - Food Security Network (news articles)
http://www.fao.org/spfs/ - FAO’s Special Programme for Food Security
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/foodsecurity# - Development Gateways’s page on Food Security
http://www.eldis.org/ - Eldis (UK), sharing information on development
http://www.ifad.org/media/success/index.htm - success stories from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (UN)
http://www24.brinkster.com/alexweir/CD3WD/index.htm - 680 MB of downloadable documents on 3rd World development (many topics)

Photo: Wood and stone constructed, water powered grain mill - one of the very few uses of the wheel in the mountains of Nepal.