Development studies
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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.
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Manual Drilling Compendium
Manual Drilling Compendium 2015 Technical Guidelines
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Compost Bin Manufacturing
This technical brief describes the process of construction of home composting bins.
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Quality Assurance Guidelines for Building Construction
This document is intended to assist building workers (carpenters, masons etc…) in maintaining reliable standards in carrying out their respective work on a construction site.
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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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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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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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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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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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Plantation, production and use of biofuels at the community level
Plantation, production and use of bio fuels at the community level is a compilation of the results and processes undertaken in key sections of the project; harnessing bio fuel; plantation, oil expelling, processing and application.