Fruit Juice Processing

This brief looks at juice extraction, preparation, pasteurisation, bottling, quality control, and equipment suppliers.

Oil Extraction

Small scale oil extraction from nuts, seeds and fruits, can be used for eating, cosmetics and detergents. It can be a good source of income, once the equipment is invested in up front.

Pineapple Jam

A guide to making pineapple jam.

Manufacturing the Donkey Cart and Ambulance

This manual aims to give useful information to local fabricators and organizations that support them to help them make donkey carts and a donkey cart ambulance.

Sanitation for Primary Schools in Africa

R.A. Reed, Rod Shaw, Ken Chatterton

Produced as part of WEDC's contribution to the International Year of Sanitation 2008, this book provides easy-to-use tools for assessing sanitation, water supply and hygiene facilities in primary schools in Africa sothat appropriate decisions can be made about sanitation improvements. It also presen...

Competition and Development

Susan Joekes

Competition and Development: The Power of Competitive Markets

Fixing Health Systems

Don de Savigny, Graham Reid, Harun Kasale, Conrad Mbuya

Fixing Health Systems (2nd Edition)

Developing Adult Literacy

Juliet McCaffery

There are many different ways to manage adult literacy programmes. This book will help those who plan and develop literacy initiatives make their decisions based on an understanding of ideas, values and principles. It explains how to take into account the local context and the purposes of learners,...

Digital Poverty

Hernan Galperin, Judith Mariscal

This book represents the first publication of the Regional Dialogue on the Information Society (REDIS-DIRSI), a regional network of leading researchers concerned with the creation and dissemination of knowledge that supports effective participation in the Information Society by the poor and marginal...

Fuel for Free?

Kelvin Mason

This book covers the use of wastes in firing clay bricks via case studies in Zimbabwe, Sudan, Sri Lanka, and Peru. With respect to both livelihoods and the environment, energy efficiency in brickmaking is critical. Not only does increasing energy efficiency serve to reduce brickmakers’ fuel costs an...