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(Book) Making Climate Change Mitigation More Meaningful
The global energy system is the single largest contributor to climate change, and reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from energy is of paramount global importance to avoid catastrophic climate change. But increasing access to modern energy services for the 1.2 billion people wh...
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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) Agroecology: Science and Politics
Peter M Rosset, Miguel A Altieri
Our global food system is largely based on unsustainable industrial agricultural practices, is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, is controlled by a handful of large corporations and produces unhealthy food. Agroecology is a solution to these increasingly urgent problems. After decades of b...
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(Book) Ginger Processing
Ginger is valued for the dried ginger spice and preserved, crystallised ginger.
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(Book) Sugar production from Sugar Cane
This brief describes the process of sugar production, explaining yields, crushing, juice treatment, juice boiling and cleanliness.
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(Book) Bio-Latrines
This brief looks at the option of using bio-latrines, an on-site dry toilet technology which generates fertilising materials and fuel from the human excreta.
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(Book) Energy Access and Urban Poverty
V Castán Broto, Lucy Stevens, D Salazar
The great majority of people without access to modern energy services are rural and, rightly, much of the discussion on energy access focuses on how to reach them. However, despite their greater geographical proximity to grid electricity and other supplies of clean energy, people living in poverty i...
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(Book) Basic Beekeeping Manual 1:3
This section explains about the life of the bee.
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(Book) Panorama energético de los pobres 2018
El acceso a la energía para todos se ha consagrado en la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS 7) y el Acuerdo de París relativo al cambio climático, y, hoy en día, se acepta de forma generalizada que aporta bienestar y grandes beneficios para el desarrollo. No obstante, sigue sin comprende...
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(Book) Guideline for Building Power Thresher
Step by step pictorial description of how to build a power thresher cost effectively.
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(Book) Poor People's Energy Outlook 2014
Energy poverty is a crippling component of the poverty trap that consigns victims to lives of drudgery and subsistence. Accordingly, we have recently seen the rise of concern for energy access on the international stage. However, at the national level the gravity of this issue has yet to be fully ap...
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(Book) Beef Cattle Production and Management Training Manual
This training manual was produced to share experiences gained over a number of years by practitioners in beef cattle production and management.
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(Book) The Brick Mould
Drawing of a brick mould.
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(Book) Moving Forward / Salir Adelante
Pia Riggirozzi, Bruna Curcio, Tallulah Lines, Natalia Cintra
Also available in Spanish/Portuguese
Compiling photographs and testimonies from Indigenous Warao and non-Indigenous Venezuelan women displaced in Brazil, ‘Moving Forward / Salir Ad...
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(Book) 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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(Book) Making Stabilised Soil Blocks
Deals with the two main problems that can arise with earth buildings: stabilisation and compaction.
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(Book) Gestion de nos dechets 2021
La gestion des déchets que nous produisons tous constitue un défi grandissant dans le monde entier. Les problèmes de gestion des déchets sont habituellement décrits et mesurés en termes de flux de matières et d’incidences environnementales. Cependant, il s’agit d’un problème humain ayant d’important...
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(Book) Poor People's Energy Outlook 2019 Arabic
PPEO 2019 is the culmination of five years’ research, exploring what it takes to realise the kinds of energy services that enable people living in energy poverty to thrive. The report compiles and updates key messages and recommendations on energy access planning (PPEO 2016), financing (PPEO 2017) a...
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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) Flood Early Warning System in Practice: Experiences of Nepal
Flood Early Warning System (EWS) is one of the key programmes implemented by Practical Action in Nepal since 2002. We have realised, there is a need of EWS in South Asia regional scale as the disasters are not limited within the political boundary.