Agriculture and Food
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Harvesting and Threshing
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.
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Intercultivation
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.
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Multi-purpose Toolbars
This guide provides information on the type of equipment that is available for farming on the small-scale and for small-holdings. It details the relevant characteristics of the different types of multi-purpose toolbars and lists the name and address of the manufacturer.
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Seed-bed Preparation
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.
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Rural Vulnerability to Famine in Ethiopia
Prescriptions for rural development abound, but ‘what is frequently lacking is not so much ideas or techniques as the will and the commitment’ to improve conditions. The author describes how, in the complex case of Ethiopia, man can be held responsible for famine –and suggests how he can act to prev...
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How to Make the Most of your Tractor
This book is divided into four sections: operating your tractor, maintaining your tractor, carrying out field operations and how to work safely. Presented carefully and clearly, it is well illustrated with diagrams and pictures.
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Animal Draught Technology
An important and useful guide to the widely scattered literature on a subject of increasing importance - over 300 annotated items.
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Developing Technologies for the Rural Poor
This selective review looks at case studies where NGOs have been involved in rural/agricultural technology programmes directed at the rural poor, and attempts to identify those common features which characterize the agencies that have met with success. (Published in the ITDG Occasional Paper series)...
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The Golden Insect
This handbook on tropical beekeeping for beginners is based on first hand Ghanaian experience.
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Selective Feeding Programmes
Over the years, Oxfam has been involved in a wide variety of health-related projects. The "Practical Health Guides" draw on this experience to put forward ideas on best practice in the provision of health care and services in developing countries. A comprehensive manual for use in treating different...