Good practices and innovative experiences in the South: Vol. 1, economic, environmental and sustainable livelihood initiatives/ edited by Martin Khor and Lim Li Lin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

v. 1. Economic, environmental, and sustainable livelihood initiatives -- v. 2. Good practices in social policies, indigenous and traditional knowledge, and appropriate technology -- v. 3. Innovative social organizations, practices, and experiments.
Content: Part 1 Economic Policies and Management: CPF mobilizing domestic savings for development; regulation of foreign capital flows in Chile; SAPRI - organizing civil society to review structural adjustment policies. Part 2 Environmental policies and management: capacity development in plant sciences in Ethiopia; India's policy for protecting the coastal environment for sustainable use; the conservation strategy of Ethiopia project. Part 3 Community-based sustainable livelihoods: water-efficient sugarcane farming; small-scale textile production using natural dyes; sustainable rice production by indigenous women; community statutes on sustainable rural development; the Irula tribal snake venom extraction cooperative; handmade paper from rags and trash. Part 4 Environmentallysound practices and techniques: Nayakrishi Andolan - a community-based system of organic farming; Auroville - wasteland reclamation through rehabilitation of eroded soil; SIBAT - training farmers to regain traditional seeds; agrobiodiversity and coping with variability in weather and soils; raising of earthworms (vermitech) for environmetally-sound uses.