Development studies
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Sugar production from Sugar Cane
This brief describes the process of sugar production, explaining yields, crushing, juice treatment, juice boiling and cleanliness.
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Uncharted Territory
Disputes over land often start conflicts; and land is often a key issue when refugees and internally displaced people attempt to return home when the conflict is over. Access to land affects people’s choice to return and their prospects of recovery. Yet humanitarian agencies largely neglect these wi...
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Recycling Plastics: Starting a business
An introduction to plastic recycling looking at the reasons for recycling and the practicalities of small-scale businesses.
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Serpentine Solar Water Heating: Guidelines for Fabrication
The Serpentine is a solar thermal collector developed as part of a low cost water heating system by the AIDG for households in Xela, Guatemala.
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Strawberry Flavoured Jam
Strawberry flavoured jam can be made from ash gourd and artificial strawberry flavouring.
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Coffee Processing
This fact sheet describes the types of coffee, and the techniques and equipment needed for small-scale coffee production.
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Mud as a Mortar
Clay is the inherent binder of soils which are used in building. Such mortars are generally used with adobe and compressed soil blocks.
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Fuelling Economic Growth
The private sector is playing an increasingly important role in the funding of scientific research. As public sector research declines in the countries of the north and the south, research and development carried out by the private sector becomes more important for innovations that have economic pot...
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Women Feeding Cities
Alice Hovorka, Henk de Zeeuw, Mary Njenga
Poverty, food insecurity and malnutrition have become critical urban problems. Meeting this challenge, in many cities around the world, women play a crucial role in household food production, growing vegetables in gardens and vacant urban spaces, raising animals, and trading in fresh and cooked food...
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Farmer First Revisited
Agriculture is an urgent global priority and farmers find themselves in the front line of some of the world's most pressing issues- climate change, globalization and food security. Twenty years ago, the Farmer First workshop held at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK, lau...