Building Maintenance

Derek Miles, Paul Syagga

This book describes the management and administration of building maintenance and the methods or basic technologies. It is aimed at managers of small building units, it describes some common causes of the deterioration of building fabric and suggests some solutions.

Seed-bed Preparation

M Matthews

This guide firstly discusses the various methods of seed-bed preparation with a description of hand tools, animal powered cultivation and tillage systems and continues with a listing of appropriate equipment which includes ploughs harrows and cultivators.

Standards and Specifications for Local Building Materials

Report on the deliberations from a regional workshop on standards and specifications for local building materials, dealing with regional co-operation, methodologies for establishing standards and procedures and quality control.

Harvesting and Threshing

John Boyd

Ian Johnson

This manageable guide sets out to answer what harvesting and threshing equipment is available, what are the main characteristics of types of equipment and where can you go for more information and supply.

Improved Wood Waste and Charcoal Burning Stoves

W Stewart

A manual for those involved in the day-to-day work of stoves projects. The book describes the chief characteristics, both advantages and disadvantages, of 28 types of stoves.

Intercultivation

Frank Inns

This book, part of the Tools for Agriculture series, is designed to give a guide to types of equipment available for farming on the small-scale and for small holdings.

Clay Tile Manufacture

A guide to clay tile manufacture, covering tools, factory siting, operations, budgeting and financing the project.

Guatemala: False Hope, False Freedom

James Painter

After the installation of a civilian government in 1986, many Guatemalans hopes for a sharp break with the poverty and repression of the past. This updated edition examines the first half of Christian Democrat President Vinicio Cerezo's five-year term in office.

Soft Drink, Hard Labour

Mike Gatehouse, Miguel-Angel Reyes

For nine years the 450 workers at the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Guatemala City fought a battle with their employers for their jobs, trade union and lives. Three times they occupied the plant - on the last occasion for thirteen months. Three General Secretaries of their union were murdered and five...

Small-scale Soapmaking

Peter Donkor

Making soap in the context of protracted economic difficulties has meant not only the development of a simple method that could meet rural conditions, but one that could survive the temperament of the wildly fluctuating marketplace as well. Peter Donkor’s book describes the development of soapmakin...