Agriculture and Food
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Carrot Farming
This technical brief describes how to optimise the farming of carrots with detail on the seasons, sowing, fertiliser and seeding rates.
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Sandbar cropping
The document describes pumpkin production in sandbar with the support of SHIREE project namely “Pathways From Poverty Project†in four erosion prone districts of North-west Bangladesh.
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Successful Distribution Models for Clean Cookstoves
Drawing on ten case studies in Africa, Asia and Latin America, an expert workshop and a literature review this study outlines key lessons for the establishment of last mile distribution chains for clean cookstoves.
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Garlic farming
This technical brief describes how to optimise the farming of garlic with particular focus on weed control, irrigation and pests
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Sustaining Local Food Webs
Local production provides food for more than 70 per cent of the world’s population and secures a livelihood for well over 2 billion. In local food webs the distance between producer and consumer is geographically and culturally short – with food and labour shared between families, neighbours, villag...
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Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions
Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions extends the original conception of the food regime, formulated by Harriet Friedmann and Philip McMichael, detailing new dimensions of the succession of imperial, intensive and corporate food regimes. Developing the methodological contributions of food regime analy...
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Clay Pot Cooler – Cooling Food Without Electricity
This document has been produced based on the experience of Movement Verein working in Burkina Faso, West Africa on the evaporative cooler for food preservation.
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Requirement to demand Organic fertilizer Promotion
Requirement to demand: Promoting Organic Fertilizer in Bangladesh, exploring required Knowledge support for major stakeholders in relation to creating a viable business model for OF production and marketing at scale.
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Peanut Roaster
The design and construction of a peanut roaster
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Drip Irrigation ?System
A drip irrigation system delivers water directly to the root zone of a plant, where it seeps slowly into the soil one drop at a time. This document describes gravity operated drip irrigation system suitable for poor communities and households.