Mushroom Growing

Developing commercial cultivation of mushrooms is growing throughout Africa. This brief focuses on this practice in Zimbabwe.

Solar Drying

Drying using sunshine - a brief description of the basic principles behind it and how to determine the rate of drying.

Ginger Processing

Ginger is valued for the dried ginger spice and preserved, crystallised ginger.

Fruit Preserves - Jams, Jellies and Marmalades

An introduction to small-scale jams, jellies and marmalades making, Known collectively as preserves.

Rethinking Monitoring and Evaluation

Esther Mebrahtu, Brian Pratt, Linda Lonnqvist

Do any of these monitoring and evaluation issues sound familiar? It feels like your monitoring and evaluation (M&E) has to demonstrate that your project is perfect. Your funder demands M&E data that's too cumbersome to collect. M&E feels more like an impediment than a resource to your work. Your M&E...

Guideline for Building Power Thresher

Step by step pictorial description of how to build a power thresher cost effectively.

Making Stabilised Soil Blocks

Deals with the two main problems that can arise with earth buildings: stabilisation and compaction.

Pepper Processing

Pepper processing looks at the main post harvest activities. These activities include sorting, threshing and drying.

Capacity Building Framework

Brenda Lipson, Martina Hunt

The design and implementation of successful capacity building programmes involves a range of complex processes and considerations. This practical guide draws on INTRAC’s experience in capacity building consultancy and programme work and on its successful international training in capacity building....

Clove Processing

Cloves are the unopened flower buds of the evergreen tree and are used to flavour foods and drinks. They are also used to produce essential oil used in dentistry and as a cleaning agent in microscopy. The steps in obtaining and processing it are shown here.