Practical Action Publishing

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  Floating Gardens in Bangladesh

  A floating garden is built using aquatic weeds as a base on which vegetables can be grown.

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  Flood Adaptive Rice Cultivation Practice

  Flood Adaptive Rice Cultivation Practice Technical Brief

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  From Vulnerability to Resilience (V2R)

  This documents sets out the key factors that contribute to peoples' vulnerability: exposure to hazards and stresses and fragile livelihoods. It provides detailed explanation of the linkages between these factors, as well as ideas for action to strengthen resilience.

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  Gundruk (Pickled Leafy Vegetable)

  Gundruk is obtained from the fermentation of leafy vegetables in Nepal. It is either served as an appetiser, or as a side dish with the main meal.

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  How to Grow Your Own Onion Seed

  Here is some basic information on how to grow onions and produce onion seeds. The document focuses on Burkina Faso but this approach can be used in many other locations.

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  Hydraulic Lime: An Introduction

  Hydraulic lime was an important cementitious material before the arrival of Portland cement but it is little used now, except in conservation work.

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  The Kebkabiya Plough

  This plough has been used with great success in Kebkabiya, Sudan. Here is a highly visual guide to its use.

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  Lime Production

  There is a long history of production and use of lime in Sri Lanka. Its main use has been as a cementing agent and as a decorative whitewash in the building industry.

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  Lime Production: 2

  Lime has been used in the Malawian building industry for many generations, principally as the cementing agent in renders and to produce a decorative whitewash.

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  Low-Cost Civil works for Micro-Hydro Schemes

  Civil works can suffer from cracking and significant scour damage. This document looks at some of the approaches that were taken to combat these problems in hydro schemes in the Cajamarca region of Peru.