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(Book) Recycling Plastics: Starting a business
An introduction to plastic recycling looking at the reasons for recycling and the practicalities of small-scale businesses.
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(Book) Seed Multiplication of Improved Open-Pollinated Varieties
Community-based seed multiplication of open-pollinated varieties (OPV) can mitigate against hybrid seed unavailability and its soaring cost thereby increasing access to standard seed for communal areas, especially in drought prone areas.
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(Book) Understanding Equid Welfare Issues
A comprehensive technical guide to understanding and dealing with equid welfare and health issues from The Brooke
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(Book) Extrusion of Foods
There are two types of extrusion process: cold extrusion, which mixes and shapes foods such as biscuit dough and pasta without cooking them; and hot extrusion (or extrusion cooking).
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(Book) Solar Water Heating
Solar water heaters generally employ a solar collector and a storage tank and provide hot water for washing and heating.
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(Book) Spice Processing
Small-scale processing of spices can be economically and socially successful.
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(Book) Solar Photovoltaic Energy
This Technical Brief looks at the background of solar photovoltaic (PV) energy (in which sunlight is directly converted into electricity), the design of PV cell, modules and arrays, and configuration of PV systems.
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(Book) Solar Distillation
The technical brief contains the information on solar distillation process that provides clean and safe drinking water to people living in areas with less access to it. Solar distillation is the process of removing salts and other impurities using the energy of the sun to get pure water for drinking...
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(Book) Solar Photovoltaic Water Pumping
The advantages and disadvantages of solar water pumping are outlined in this document.
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(Book) Packaging Foods in Glass
This Technical Brief is intended to advise small-scale producers on the methods and equipment needed to package foods in glass jars and bottles.
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(Book) Human-Powered Handpumps for Water Lifting
This brief presents an overview of the types of human-powered water lifters available, the applications appropriate to them, and their comparative advantages.
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(Book) The Permanent Magnet Generator (PMG)
This guide describes how to make a small permanent magnet generator for wind turbines.
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(Book) How to Set up and Manage a Resource Centre
This document focuses on resource centres for health workers. Information is especially important for training health workers helping them to understand the context of their work, follow new approaches, undertake new responsibilities, improve their practice and remind them of basic concepts.
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(Book) Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Technologies in Bangladesh
Renewable energy practices in Bangladesh.
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(Book) Cook Stoves in Sri Lanka
Renewable energy practices in Sri Lanka cook stoves.
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(Book) Solar Thermal Energy in Nepal
Renewable energy practices in Nepal
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(Book) Delivering decentralisation
This is an introductory leaflet to the project Delivering decentralization: slum dwellers' access to decision making for pro poor infrastructure services.
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(Book) Participatory planning for inclusive urban governance
Practical Action Bangladesh have implemented a four-year long (2012 - 2016) multi-country (Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka) project named Integrated Urban Development (IUD)-II project, focusing participatory planning for inclusive urban governance. It came as a follow-up of IUD-I project had been imple...
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(Book) The Construction of Timberless House Model
The conflict in Darfur, which most analysts judge to have started in 2003 has had a devastating effect on the region. Many of the internally displaced people (IDPs) who were forced to flee their homes have ended up living in make-shift camps around the major cities such as Alfashir, Algenenina and N...
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(Book) Rainwater Harvesting in Thailand
An explorative study was done to collect information and analyse the experiences of the promotion of domestic rainwater harvesting (DRWH) in Thailand. A rapid review of evidence was combined with a field trip to collect information from a wide variety of actors. This report summarizes the main findi...