Development studies
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Pumpkin Growing using Sandbar Cropping
This brief describes a way of growing crops on the sandbars, created by river deposits in Bangladesh, and how this can be used to increase crop production for marginalised famers.
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Small-scale Off grid Solar PV Installation Manual
A complete installation guide for Solar PV systems up to 235W (or one solar panel.) Written in collaboration with Quetsol, primarily for applications in Guatemala.
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Water Supply During Emergencies
Overview of options for water supply in an emergency context, with relation to people-centred reconstruction principles.
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Metalworking
Making a living from small-scale metalworking depends on being able to make products that customers want. This is partly based on technical skills and partly on understanding customers.
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Biogas Digest: Volume II
Important factors, providing a checklist for the planning and procedure for product development of a biogas plant.
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Poor People's Energy Outlook 2012
Access to energy is essential for poor people to earn a decent living, to work their way out of the vicious cycle of poverty and subsistence. Whether you earn off the land, from a small business, through a job in a larger enterprise or through the supply of energy itself, energy is important. Poor P...
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Solar Thermal Energy in Nepal
Renewable energy practices in Nepal
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Health Care Waste Management in Developing Countries
This brief gives an overview on health care waste treatment options focusing on incineration.
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Spurs and Dykes for Flood Protection
Spurs and dykes are structures that protect river banks and contain flood waters. They can be built by communities using stones and wire.
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How to Build a Small Vertical Shaft Lime Kiln
An example of a continuous production, mixed feed kiln from Zimbabwe.