Coffee Processing

This fact sheet describes the types of coffee, and the techniques and equipment needed for small-scale coffee production.

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.

Fuelling Economic Growth

Michael Graham, Jean Woo

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...

Farmer First Revisited

Ian Scoones, John Thompson

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...

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...

Recycling Used Lead Acid Batteries

Batteries are used whenever electrical energy is needed and are common around the world, but they can be harmful to the environment.

Basic Beekeeping 1:6

Manual 1:6 looks at how to set up a good apiary

Basic Beekeeping Manual 1:1

This is the intoductory section to the Basic Beekeeping Manual

Basic Beekeeping Manual 1:10

This section of Basic Beekeeping explains how to harvest beeswax.

Basic Beekeeping Manual 1:2

This section explains the life of the bee.