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(Book) Basic Beekeeping Manual 1:3
This section explains about the life of the bee.
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(Book) Axial Turbine Guide to Manufacture
This technical brief presents guidelines for the manufacture of the axial turbine which is used in the generation of hydro powered energy.
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(Book) Basic Beekeeping Manual 1:9
This section of Basic beekeeping describes how to extract quality honey.
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(Book) Micro-Hydro Power
This brief looks at micro-hydro power, the various types of turbine, and the economics.
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(Book) A Woodworking Bench
This technical brief shows how a woodworking bench with vice can be made without the use of steel components.
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(Book) Solar PV Technologies in Sri Lanka
Renewable energy practices in Sri Lanka
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(Book) Food Security for the Extreme Poor in Bangladesh
The Policy Brief is prepared based on experiences of partner organisations in the northern and southern regions of Bangladesh and the food security framework i.e. food accessibility, availability, utilisation and sustainability, which are mostly included in the 7th Five Year Plan 2016-2020, where co...
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(Book) An Introduction to Beekeeping
This Technical Brief looks at some of the basic considerations of beekeeping on a small scale, with diagrams illustrating the techniques involved.
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(Book) A Small Lime Kiln for Batch and Continuous Firing
In 1996 Practical Action commissioned Paragon Ceramics to build an experimental lime kiln at Dedza in Malawi in partnership with local lime burners.
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(Book) A Simple Retort
How to make and use a simple retort for separating gold-mercury amalgam.
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(Book) A Wheel-Manufacturing Technology for Rural Workshops
A small-scale approach to making wheels using a jig
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(Book) Interlocking Stabilized Soil Blocks
Using Practical Action's technical information, Andrew from Nairobi is developing many new enterprises using locally available resources. His most recent is the development of interlocking stabilized soil blocks.
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(Book) Migración forzada, derechos humanos y salud sexual y reproductiva
Natalia Cintra, David Owen, Pia Riggirozzi
Centrado en el desplazamiento forzado de mujeres y niñas venezolanas, este libro examina la dimensión de género y su impacto en el desplazamiento forzado y las formas en las cuales las fallas de los regímenes de protección y su insensibilidad al carácter de género afectan a las mujeres y niñas migra...
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(Book) Fertile Ground
There are about 2.5 billion people in the world, on 500 million farms, involved with smallholder family agriculture and food production. Their creative capacity to farm productively and sustainably with nature, instead of against it, is perhaps the most powerful force that can be unleashed to overco...
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(Book) Normes et directives pour l’aide d’urgence à l’élevage Troisième édition
Le manuel des Normes et directives pour l’aide d’urgence à l’élevage (LEGS) est axé sur les communautés d’éleveurs affectées par des crises humanitaires. En s’appuyant sur les meilleures pratiques à partir de données probantes, le manuel aide les praticiens à concevoir et mettre en oeuvre des interv...
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(Book) Normas y directrices para intervenciones ganaderas en emergencias Tercera edición
El Manual de las Normas y directrices para intervenciones ganaderas en emergencias (LEGS) se centra en las comunidades ganaderas afectadas por crisis humanitarias. Sustentado en las mejores prácticas basadas en la evidencia, el manual ayuda a profesionales del sector a diseñar e implementar respuest...
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(Book) Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards Arabic 3rd edition
The Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS) target livestock-owning communities affected by humanitarian crises. Drawing on international evidence-based best practice, LEGS supports practitioners to design and implement emergency responses that protect and rebuild livestock-base... -
(Book) Mud as a Mortar
Clay is the inherent binder of soils which are used in building. Such mortars are generally used with adobe and compressed soil blocks.
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(Book) Health Care Waste Management in Developing Countries
This brief gives an overview on health care waste treatment options focusing on incineration.
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(Book) Soured Milk and Yoghurt
Soured milk is produced by uncontrolled milk fermentation using naturally-occurring bacteria. Yoghurt is produced by controlled milk fermentation of milk by lactic acid bacteria.