Evaporative Cooling

Keeping produce fresh with refrigeration methods that require no external power.

Home Composting Bins

Composting is encouraged as a means of dealing with organic waste and can offer many benefits such as enhanced soil fertility.

Lime Juice - Small-scale Production

Making fresh limes into lime juice can alleviate the problem of getting them to the fruit market in a state where they still fetch a good price.

Semences du monde

Ronnie Vernooy

semences du monde. Lamélioration participative des plantes

Seeds that Give

Ronnie Vernooy

Seeds that Give: Participatory plant breeding

Community-based Animal Healthcare

Andy Catley, Stephen Blakeway, Tim Leyland

Community based approaches to improving animal health have been evolving for many years. Numerous organisations and institutions, including government veterinary services, are now beginning to implement community-based animal health projects in order to provide basic veterinary services in rural are...

Cultivating Biodiversity

Harold Brookfield

The United Nations University project on People, Land Management and Environmental Change (PLEC) has used the traditional skills of smallholder farmers - for cultivating their crops, managing the soil, water and vegetation and maintaining their livelihoods in difficult circumstances - to produce thi...

Drying Food for Profit

Barrie Axtell

This book has been written for existing and prospective entrepreneurs who wish to produce dry foods commercially at small and medium scale. Great effort has been made to use simple language but at the same time to examine all relevant technical aspects.

Hands On Food, Water and Finance

Emma Judge

Appropriate 'green' technologies are sometimes regarded as a second-rate solution but the series Practical Innovations for a Sustainable World challenges this concept by presenting real-life examples of successful appropriate technology stories from Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America. All of the...

Horse Healthcare

David Hadrill

This manual is designed for those who care for working horses but who may have little or no access to professional veterinary help. By guiding readers to the appropriate action to take when caring for a sick animal, this book will help alleviate the suffering of horses, donkeys and mules and thereby...