Sericulture and Silk Production

Prabha Shekar, Martin Hardingham

This book describes the stages of mulberry bush growing, silkworm egg production, silkworm rearing, silk cocoon reeling and silk fabric production. Ideal for fieldworkers, development agencies and those starting small-scale manufacture or attempting to improve or extend manufacture (Published in the...

Drying

This book is an introduction to the principles of drying and gives an indication of the range of technologies available, along with case studies examining the use of improved drier designs.

Appropriate Paper-based Technology (APT)

Bevill Packer

Appropriate Paper-based Technology (APT) is a comprehensive survey of the technologies for making a wide range of products from chess-men to armchairs, from trays to solar cookers, using paper. It is a revised and updated edition of the Manual of APT published by IRED, Harare, 1989 and 1991. The rev...

Sustainable Sewerage

R.A. Reed

This handbook describes how conventional sewerage schemes can be modified to reduce the cost of construction and maintenance and suggests methods of prioritizing sewerage needs. Also surveys planning, selection, design, management and maintenance of community schemes as well as providing financial a...

Power and Participatory Development

Nici Nelson

This book explores the power dimensions of participatory development and research, and examines what shifts in power within communities and institutions are needed for participatory ideas to be effective.

Traditional Beancurd Manufacture

Natasha Johnson

This publication reviews the wide range of beancurd varieties available, the principles used in their manufacture by traditional methods and those methods that have potential for large-scale manufacture.

Power Guide

Peter Fraenkel, Wim Hulscher

The catalogue builds on both the earlier edition of The Power Guide and The Equipment Directory produced for training courses by the Technology and Development Group of the University of Twente in the Netherlands. The data has been comprehensively revised and updated on the basis of research carried...

Medical and Hygiene Textile Production

Allison Mathews, Martin Hardingham

This handbook offers basic information on all levels of manufacture and small-scale production of medical and hygiene textiles including gauze, cotton wool, bandages, sanitary towels and nappies. Topics range from processing raw materials to packaging (Published in the Small-scale Textiles series).

Island Technology

Tony Marjoram

Pacific island countries have united internationally to contest the negative external impacts of Western technology - such as the disposal of poison gas and toxic waste, the transportation of nuclear materials and nuclear testing, as well as the overwhelming prospect of global warming and a rising s...

Beyond Farmer First

Ian Scoones, John Thompson

The purpose of this book is to reveal how agricultural research and extension, far from being discrete, rational acts, are in fact part of a process of coming to terms with conflicting interests and viewpoints. By going beyond Farmer First, this theoretically informed perspective describes agricultu...