This is the third volume of a series of ten books that discuss the collections of the Tropenmuseum and the histories and stories that accompany the...

In June 2010, South Africa is the platform for the biggest event that has ever taken place on the African continent: the football World Cup. In the...

Literally a metal device that prevents a ship or boat from drifting, the anchor came to represent a sailor's last resort in stormy weather, a symbo...

‘Things are changing and we are changing with it,’ was their motto. Since 1927 uprising broke out against the Dutch in the colony, the crisis follo...

Art Fallen from Heaven, modern Balinese sculpture, offers a new perspective on the origin of modern Balinese sculpture in the 1930s. After the subj...

Birds are fascinating creatures. They are descendants of dinosaurs and connect us to the far gone past. Like bees and bats, birds play a significan...

Between 1970 and 2005, Bolivia lived through military coups, democracy and dictatorship. It suffered discontinuity, erratic political change, peasa...

African smallholder farmers need to intensify their production systems and adapt to continuous, often unforeseen and sudden changes in their enviro...

An increasing number of African smallholders are moving from subsistence farming to selling at least part of their output. To shift successfully to...

Ten upcoming young museum professionals from around the world gathered in the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) in Amsterdam to discuss the 'crisis of...

Capacity-building is key to sustainable development efforts and over the past decades has also enjoyed considerable attention in the field of healt...

It makes sense for institutions to digitally register their collections or company information. The possibilities and applications seem endless. Of...

This is a book of hope for Africa's smallholder farmers. It shows how they can earn more from their crops and livestock by taking control over the ...

"Common Goods in a Divided World", the title of the lecture series organised by the Netherlands Chapter of the Society for International Developmen...

The richness and diversity of Dutch contributions to the built environment of South Africa remain little-known in the study of twentieth-century a...

This book is published to mark the 150th anniversary of De Surinaamsche Bank (DSB). Suriname has changed dramatically over the past 150 years. It h...

Revised nineteenth edition of the successful business book on how to deal with the Dutch. The subject of this book is the everyday working culture ...

This book gives an insight into major development issues, such as the contribution of aid to economic growth of developing countries and the effect...

Twenty years ago, economic planning and protectionism were held responsible for poverty and stagnation. Nowadays it is the market that is blamed, n...

Old Dutch slave fortresses in Elmina were restored and alongside the restoration some sustainable developments took place: the set up of a tourist ...

This book deals with the emerging global scarcities on food, energy and water; on how these are interrelated and affected by considerations and pol...

In development co-operation there is a trend that the private sector is seen as an integral part of the solution to reduce poverty. As a result pro...

In working to become sustainable, the spice industry faces a number of unique opportunities, but also significant challenges. These include the com...

Highlights from the Korea collection of Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde by Elmer Veldkamp is the first contemporary study that describes the history of and...