Practical Action Publishing
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Quality assurance checklist (3)
This document is intended to provide basic guidelines to occupants of houses that have been constructed in new resettlements in Sri Lanka. However, the information can also be used in maintaining any domestic building in other tropical regions as well.
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Sandbar cropping
The document describes pumpkin production in sandbar with the support of SHIREE project namely “Pathways From Poverty Project†in four erosion prone districts of North-west Bangladesh.
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Successful Distribution Models for Clean Cookstoves
Drawing on ten case studies in Africa, Asia and Latin America, an expert workshop and a literature review this study outlines key lessons for the establishment of last mile distribution chains for clean cookstoves.
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Garlic farming
This technical brief describes how to optimise the farming of garlic with particular focus on weed control, irrigation and pests
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Handpump Standardisation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Handpump standardisation is the formal or informal mechanism that governs the varieties of community handpumps used within a particular country. In a handful of countries this also includes stand ard handpump designs. With over a million handpumps in sub Saharan Africa and new installations every da...
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How to identify building defects
This presentation provides some guidelines to identify building defects in construction industry.
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Mechanical waste plastic recycling
This technical brief describes the process of plastic recycling.
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Small-scale Rural Biogas Programmes
Renewable energy is becoming crucially important, as concern over burning fossil fuels is increasing and the price of oil continues to rise. Biogas technology has undergone great developments since the first designs in the 1970s. Large national projects are working very effectively in countries such...
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The Business of Doing Good
Anton Simanowitz, Katherine Knotts
Why is it that so many organizations, seeking to do good in the world, miss opportunities to do so – and indeed sometimes exacerbate the very problem they seek to address? The Business of Doing Good reveals six insights for microfinance and other social purpose organizations using the marketplace to...
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Sustaining Local Food Webs
Local production provides food for more than 70 per cent of the world’s population and secures a livelihood for well over 2 billion. In local food webs the distance between producer and consumer is geographically and culturally short – with food and labour shared between families, neighbours, villag...