Agriculture and Food
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Small-Scale Food Processing
This completely revised and expanded second edition is the essential reference guide for all those involved in food processing on a small- or medium-scale. Extensively illustrated , clearly laid out and easy to use. A vital reference tool for business advisers and trainers, development workers and f...
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Evaporative Cooling
Keeping produce fresh with refrigeration methods that require no external power.
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Home Composting Bins
Composting is encouraged as a means of dealing with organic waste and can offer many benefits such as enhanced soil fertility.
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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.
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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...
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Cultivating Biodiversity
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...
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Drying Food for Profit
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.
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Hands On Food, Water and Finance
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...