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(Book) Basic Beekeeping Manual 1:4
This section of Basic Beekeeping describes how to make a simple bee veil.
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(Book) Basic Beekeeping Manual 1:10
This section of Basic Beekeeping explains how to harvest beeswax.
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(Book) Basic Beekeeping Manual 1:5
This section explains how to make a movable comb top bar beehive.
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(Book) Fodder Conservation Using a Manual Baler
A simple method for baling fodder.
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(Book) Banana Beer
Banana beer is made from bananas, mixed with a cereal flour (often sorghum flour) and fermented to make an alcoholic beverage.
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(Book) Domestic Rainwater Harvesting Tank
A manual on how to train people in the construction of a ferrocement "pumpkin" water tank.
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(Book) Flood Resistant Housing
Bangladesh has regular floods putting people at risk. This brief describes some flood resistant housing options.
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(Book) Axial Turbine Guide to Installation
The guide gives the most important process steps for the installation of the Axial Turbine for the generation of hydro power energy.
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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.