Practical Action Publishing
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Walk-In Cold Rooms: A Practitioner’s Technical Guide - Summary
There are extreme challenges for cold rooms when operating in locations remote from reliable power, away from supply chains, hard to reach for technical support and with a hot climate.This guide consolidates the current state of the art on designing and operating walk-in cold rooms that are well sui...
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Untold Stories of Disablement and Displacement
Untold Stories of Disablement and Displacement provides a compelling look at the authentic experiences of Syrian refugees with disabilities. Their stories of migration and disability are often ignored in public discussions and academic research. These families were forced to leave their homes due to...
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Young and Female
Sharada Srinivasan, Lu Pan, Aprilia Ambarwati
Women’s roles in sustaining and the revival of farming are indispensable. Based on research in Canada, China, India and Indonesia, the book offers a global perspective on young women’s pathways into farming. It responds directly to concerns about the generational sustainability of smallholder farmin...
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Considerations, design calculations, construction, test and evaluation of a cavity walled solar oven Part 2: Evaluation of insulation materials
This report is Part 2 of- (and an addendum to-) the Part 1 of: “Considerations, design calculations, construction, test and evaluation of a cavity walled solar oven”. Both Part 1 and Part 2 of the report are based on a cavity walled solar oven consisting of two boxes – one within the other – with a...
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How to Build a Solar Oven out of Scraped Materials
This is a brief guide-line on how to build a solar oven - based on experiences with building a homemade solar ovens, at the lowest possible cost, with simple tools and using scraped materials. It is aimed to reduce the need for fire wood and other fuels in refugee camps.
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Thermal Tests of the 'Solar Oven revision 2'
This report describes the thermal test of the solar oven revision 2 - built in August 2024. The aim is – based on the thermal measurements at the oven – to find out – for a given irradiation - how much the solar oven can rise its temperature T above the temperature of the ambient TAmb. - and how fas...
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Alternatives to Portland Cement
Cement is an important binding agent in concretes, mortars and renders, and is used for the production of walling blocks and roofing tiles.
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Drip Irrigation ?System
A drip irrigation system delivers water directly to the root zone of a plant, where it seeps slowly into the soil one drop at a time. This document describes gravity operated drip irrigation system suitable for poor communities and households.
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Operation and Maintenance of Water and Sanitation Infrastructure
The training module developed for sanitation and hygiene education
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Passion Fruit Cultivation
Passion fruit is a rustic, adaptable crop used in foodstuffs and medicine at both small and industrial scales.