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Terre Fertile
La planète compte environ 2,5 milliards de personnes impliquées dans l’agriculture familiale et la production alimentaire qui sont réparties sur 500 millions de fermes. Leur capacité créative à exploiter leurs terres de manière productive et durable en accord avec la nature, et non contre elle, est...
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Tierra Fértil
En el mundo hay cerca de 2500 millones de personas, en 500 millones de granjas, dedicadas a la agricultura familiar y a la producción de alimentos a pequeña escala. Su capacidad creativa para cultivar de manera productiva y sostenible con la naturaleza, en lugar de en contra de ella, es tal vez la f...
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Nature-based Solutions for Climate Resilience in Humanitarian Action
Nature-based solutions (NbS) are actions that hold the twin objectives of providing for human well-being and protecting the environment. They are a tangible solution that can build immediate and long-term resilience for those affected by crisis. This Unpacked Guide focuses on NbS for resilience i...
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The INGO Problem
International non-governmental organisations (INGOs) have emerged over the past few decades as the dominant institution in the civil society ecosystem, garnering a disproportionate amount of both resources and power in the international arena. Local actors continue to be marginalised and largely exc...
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Reflecting Forewords
Reflecting Forewords is an unashamedly ambitious book. Full of lessons from the past that are relevant for the future, it is a compilation of inspiring forewords from books written by Robert Chambers; one of the most influential and prolific scholars to write about participation, poverty, and knowle...
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Considerations, design calculations, construction, test and evaluation of a cavity walled solar oven
This report investigates the feasibility of designing a dual (i.e. cavity) wall and doubled glazed solar oven, with the aim to raise the operating temperature to as near to 100oC as possible. The present design has aimed to comply with the living conditions in - and to use cheap materials and tools...
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Assessing the Technical Problems of Brick Production
A guide for brick makers and field workers to help identify technical problems.
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Biogas
Biogas is a fuel used for cooking and lighting, made from dung and other organic waste.
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Building Small-Scale Water Harvesting Dams
North Darfur faces acute deficit in its water. The need for water has forced farmers to try and adapt their practices and conserve more water.
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Carrot Farming
This technical brief describes how to optimise the farming of carrots with detail on the seasons, sowing, fertiliser and seeding rates.