Practical Answers content dump as per 2014-07-09
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- Agriculture
- Cultivation
- Aflatoxins The Invisable Threat In Foods And Feeds (printable PDF)
- Cashew Growing A Seedling In A Poypot (printable PDF)
- How To Grow Your Own Onion Seed (printable PDF)
- Live Fencing (printable PDF)
- Lost To The Weeds Sp Ipm 2 (printable PDF)
- Manuals For Women Farmers In West Africa (printable PDF)
- Mushroom Growing (printable PDF)
- Neverdie Direct Sowing (printable PDF)
- Oregano Cultivation (printable PDF)
- Planting And Care Of Tree Seedlings (printable PDF)
- Fruit Cultivation
- Enhanced Protection For Tissue Cultured Banana Plants (printable PDF)
- Papaya Nursery Sowing (printable PDF)
- Passion Fruit Cultivation (printable PDF)
- Pumpkin Growing Using Sandbar Cropping (printable PDF)
- Sowing The Seeds For Better Yams CGIAR SP IPM (printable PDF)
- Tomato Production (printable PDF)
- Yolanda Morales Growing Passion Fruit In Peru (printable PDF)
- Pest and Disease Management
- Boiling Water Treatment Of Banana And Plantain (printable PDF)
- Cereal Cyst Nematodes (printable PDF)
- SP IPM Tech Inv Brief 9 (printable PDF)
- Vegetable Production Under Protective Structures (printable PDF)
- Rice Cultivation
- Irrigation
- Building On A Tradition Of Rainwater Harvesting (printable PDF)
- Infiltration Pits For Rainwater Harvesting (printable PDF)
- Micro Irrigation (printable PDF)
- Soil Erosion (printable PDF)
- The A Frame (printable PDF)
- Underground Rainwater Harvesting (printable PDF)
- Water Harvesting Dams Sudan (printable PDF)
- Production technologies
- Donkey Plough (printable PDF)
- Duel Purpose Weeder (printable PDF)
- The Kebkabiyah Plough (printable PDF)
- Seed supply and storage
- Cashew Trees (printable PDF)
- Community Cereal Banks (printable PDF)
- Seed Fair (printable PDF)
- Seed Multiplication Of Improved Open Pollinated Varieties (printable PDF)
- Soil fertility and composting
- Construction
- Building design
- Earthquake Resistant Housing (printable PDF)
- Houses For Accessibility (printable PDF)
- Nashetu E Maa (printable PDF)
- Planning Schools In Developing Countries (printable PDF)
- School Buildings In Developing Countries (printable PDF)
- Transitional Shelter (printable PDF)
- Cement and binders
- A Small Kiln For Batch And Continous Firing (printable PDF)
- Alternatives To Portland Cement An Introduction (printable PDF)
- Calculating The Energy Efficency Of A Lime Burning Process (printable PDF)
- How To Build A Small Vertical Shaft Lime Kiln (printable PDF)
- Hydraulic Lime An Introduction (printable PDF)
- Introduction To Concrete Building Products (printable PDF)
- Lime An Introduction (printable PDF)
- Lime Kiln Design Small To Medium Scale Oil Fired Lime Kilns (printable PDF)
- Lime Production Improved Chenkumbi Malawi (printable PDF)
- Lime Production Traditional Batch Techniques In Patarra Costa Rica Case Study (printable PDF)
- Lime Production Traditional Chenkumbi Malawi (printable PDF)
- Lime Production Traditional Kiln Bounoura (printable PDF)
- Lime Production Traditional Techniques In Sri Lanka Case Study (printable PDF)
- Methods For Testing Lime In The Field (printable PDF)
- Pozzolanas An Introduction (printable PDF)
- Pozzolanas Calcined Clay And Shales And Volcanic Ash (printable PDF)
- Pozzolanas Rice Husk Ash Pulverised Fuel Ash (printable PDF)
- Testing Methods For Pozzolanas (printable PDF)
- Clay bricks
- Assessing The Technical Problems Of Brick Production (printable PDF)
- How To Measure The Energy Used To Fire Clay Bricks (printable PDF)
- Igloo Type Brick Kilns (printable PDF)
- Sustainable Small Scale Brick Production (printable PDF)
- Ten Rules For Energy Efficient Cost Effective Brick Firing (printable PDF)
- The Story Of Shambob (printable PDF)
- Utilization Of Bagasse In Brickmaking (printable PDF)
- Utilization Of Cow Dung In Brickmaking (printable PDF)
- Earth construction
- Additives To Clay Minerals And Synthetic (printable PDF)
- Additives To Clay Organic (printable PDF)
- Clay As A Binder An Introduction (printable PDF)
- How Make Stabilised Soil Blocks (printable PDF)
- Mud As A Mortar (printable PDF)
- Mud Plasters And Renders (printable PDF)
- Timberless House (printable PDF)
- Woodless Construction 1 (printable PDF)
- Woodless Construction 2 (printable PDF)
- Woodless Construction 3 (printable PDF)
- Roofing and flooring
- Stone construction
- Crop processing
- Ag Machines (printable PDF)
- Crop storage and preservation
- Evaporative Cooling (printable PDF)
- Evaporative Cooling In India (printable PDF)
- Refrigeration For Developing Countries (printable PDF)
- The Ceramic Refrigerator (printable PDF)
- Drying
- A Simple Solar Dryer (printable PDF)
- Anagi Tray Dryer (printable PDF)
- Batch Tray Dryer (printable PDF)
- Drying Of Chillies (printable PDF)
- Drying Of Foods (printable PDF)
- Dryit Small Semi Continuous Tray Dryer (printable PDF)
- How Make Dryit Tray Dryer (printable PDF)
- How Use Dryit Tray Dryer (printable PDF)
- Small Scale Drying Technologies (printable PDF)
- Solar Dryer In Kenya (printable PDF)
- Solar Drying In Peru (printable PDF)
- Solarfishdrier (printable PDF)
- Tray Dryer Semi Continuous Engineering Diagrams 1 (printable PDF)
- Tray Dryers (printable PDF)
- Nut Processing and Oil Extraction
- A Date Like Snackfood Made From Cashew Fruit (printable PDF)
- Apt Groundnut Huller (printable PDF)
- Chiuri (printable PDF)
- Coconut Processing (printable PDF)
- Essential Oils (printable PDF)
- Manual Screw Press Engineering Drawing (printable PDF)
- Oilseed Processing (printable PDF)
- Peanut Processing (printable PDF)
- Peanut Roaster (printable PDF)
- Shea Nut Processing (printable PDF)
- Disaster response, mitigation and rebuilding
- Emergency relief
- Cash For Work Sahel English (printable PDF)
- Types Of Toilet And Their Suitability (printable PDF)
- Water Supply During Emergencies (printable PDF)
- Mitigation - disaster risk reduction
- Reconstruction
- Biogas Use In Reconstruction (printable PDF)
- IFRC Tools 6 (printable PDF)
- IFRC Tools 7 (printable PDF)
- IFRC Tools 8 (printable PDF)
- IFRC Tools 9 (printable PDF)
- PCR Tool Quality Control (printable PDF)
- Pcr Tool Defining Standards (printable PDF)
- Pcr Tool 1 An Introduction (printable PDF)
- Pcr Tool 2 Resources (printable PDF)
- Pcr Tool 3 Learning From Disasters (printable PDF)
- Pcr Tool 4 Assessment (printable PDF)
- Pcr Tool 5 Learning (printable PDF)
- Permanent Shelter For Housing Infrastructure (printable PDF)
- Rainwater Harvesting During Reconstruction (printable PDF)
- Rebuilding After An Earthquake (printable PDF)
- Rebuilding Homes And Livelihoods (printable PDF)
- Water Treatment During Reconstruction (printable PDF)
- Energy
- CA Toolkit PAC SmartFinal (printable PDF)
- Energy For Rural Communities (printable PDF)
- Grid Connection (printable PDF)
- Recycling Batteries (printable PDF)
- Rural Lighting (printable PDF)
- Biofuel and biomass
- Biomass As A Solid Fuel (printable PDF)
- Charcoal Production (printable PDF)
- Fuel From The Fields Charcoal From Agricultural Waste (printable PDF)
- Liquid Biofuels (printable PDF)
- Biogas
- ARTI Biodigester Construction Manual (printable PDF)
- Biogas (printable PDF)
- Biogas Digest Vol 1 (printable PDF)
- Biogas Digest Vol 2 (printable PDF)
- Biogas Experience Sri Lanka (printable PDF)
- Biogas Plants In Animal Husbandry (printable PDF)
- Biogas Promotion In Kenya (printable PDF)
- Using A Biogas Digester (printable PDF)
- Fuels and engines
- Hydro power
- A Simple Height And Depth Measuring Instrument (printable PDF)
- Axial Turbine Fabrication (printable PDF)
- Civil Works Guidelines For Micro Hydro (printable PDF)
- Community Based Micro Hydro Village Electrification Schemes Technology Approach (printable PDF)
- Cook Electric (printable PDF)
- Layout And Construction Of Canals (printable PDF)
- Low Head Installation Guide (printable PDF)
- Michell Banki Turbine (printable PDF)
- Micro Hydro Electrification Scheme (printable PDF)
- Operation And Maintenance Micro Hydro (printable PDF)
- River Turbines (printable PDF)
- Mechanical Power
- Aerial Ropeways (printable PDF)
- Bicycle Ambulance (printable PDF)
- Bicycle Trailers (printable PDF)
- Bicycle Trailers In Zambia (printable PDF)
- Bicycles (printable PDF)
- Gravity Goods Ropeway (printable PDF)
- Human Animal Water Lifters (printable PDF)
- Human Powered Handpumps (printable PDF)
- Tech Guidelines Gravity Goods Ropeway (printable PDF)
- The Donkey Cart (printable PDF)
- The Donkey Cart Ambulance (printable PDF)
- Treadle Pumps (printable PDF)
- Windpumping (printable PDF)
- Solar energy
- Off Grid Solar Install Manual (printable PDF)
- SerpentineSolarBuildManual (printable PDF)
- Solar Distillation (printable PDF)
- Solar Drying (printable PDF)
- Solar Energy A Reference Guide (printable PDF)
- Solar PV Refrigeration Of Vaccines (printable PDF)
- Solar Pv Energy (printable PDF)
- Solar Pv System Design Info Sheet (printable PDF)
- Solar Thermal Energy (printable PDF)
- Solar Water Heating (printable PDF)
- Stoves and Ovens
- Appropriate Household Energy (printable PDF)
- Better Bonfire Kiln (printable PDF)
- Ethanol As A Household Fuel In Madagascar (printable PDF)
- How To Make Sri Lanka' ''s Anagi II Stove 1 (printable PDF)
- Improved Clay Stove (printable PDF)
- Making Mud Stoves In Sudan (printable PDF)
- Monitoring Indoor Air Pollution (printable PDF)
- Mud Stoves (printable PDF)
- Mumu (printable PDF)
- Smoke Technology Inventory Nepal (printable PDF)
- Solar Cooking (printable PDF)
- The Mubkher Stove (printable PDF)
- Upesi Stove (printable PDF)
- Wind power
- Environment and adaptation to climate change
- Adapting Rice To Saltier Conditions (printable PDF)
- Adapting To Climate Change In Sri Lanka (printable PDF)
- Artificial Reefs And Their Placement (printable PDF)
- Climate Change Assessment Coastal Bangladesh (printable PDF)
- ESRC Briefing Paper 1 (printable PDF)
- Floating Gardens Bangladesh (printable PDF)
- Mainstreeming Climate Change Adaptation In Agricultural Extranison (printable PDF)
- Preparation Of Risk Maps (printable PDF)
- Renewable Energy And Climate Change (printable PDF)
- Runoff Rainwater Harvesting (printable PDF)
- Sand Dams (printable PDF)
- Soil Desalination For Vegetable Cultivation (printable PDF)
- Fisheries
- Fibreglass Boat Building (printable PDF)
- Fishing Out The Gene Pool (printable PDF)
- Plywood Boats In South India (printable PDF)
- Farming fish and aquaculture
- Food processing
- Baking (printable PDF)
- Carrying Out A Feasibility Study (printable PDF)
- Extrusion Of Foods (printable PDF)
- Fermented Foods (printable PDF)
- Food Processing Building Design (printable PDF)
- Food Processing Equipment Design (printable PDF)
- Food Processing Parcona Peru (printable PDF)
- How To Find And Keep Customers (printable PDF)
- How To Make Sausages (printable PDF)
- Production Records (printable PDF)
- Smoked Foods (printable PDF)
- Dairy
- Butter And Ghee (printable PDF)
- Casein Production (printable PDF)
- Cheese Making In Ayacucho Peru (printable PDF)
- Cheesemaking (printable PDF)
- Dairy Processing (printable PDF)
- Facilitators Manual A Toolkit For BDS Facilitators (printable PDF)
- Flavoured Milk (printable PDF)
- Pasteurised Milk (printable PDF)
- Ricotta Cheese Making (printable PDF)
- Soured Milk And Yoghurt (printable PDF)
- Yoghurt Incubator (printable PDF)
- Farming fish and aquaculture
- Food Hygiene and Safety
- Aflatoxins The Invisable Threat In Foods And Feeds (printable PDF)
- Basic Rules Of Hygiene (printable PDF)
- Food Poisoning And Prevention (printable PDF)
- Making Safe Food (printable PDF)
- Fruits, vegetables and roots
- Cassava (printable PDF)
- Cassava Doughnuts (printable PDF)
- Cold Storage Fruit Veg (printable PDF)
- Drying Apricots (printable PDF)
- Fruit Waste Utilisation (printable PDF)
- Ginger Processing (printable PDF)
- Gundruk Pickled Leafly Vegetable (printable PDF)
- Kawal (printable PDF)
- Papain Production (printable PDF)
- Potato Storage (printable PDF)
- Tomatoes Semi Processing (printable PDF)
- Value Added Aonla Products (printable PDF)
- Herbs and spices
- Cardamom Processing (printable PDF)
- Cinnamon Processing (printable PDF)
- Clove Processing (printable PDF)
- Coriander Processing (printable PDF)
- Cumin (printable PDF)
- Nutmeg And Mace (printable PDF)
- Processing Of Cats Claw (printable PDF)
- Spice Processing (printable PDF)
- Turmeric Processing (printable PDF)
- Juices and drinks
- Banana Beer (printable PDF)
- Fruit Juice Processing (printable PDF)
- Grape Wine (printable PDF)
- Lime Juice Clear Cordial (printable PDF)
- Lime Juice Production (printable PDF)
- Lime Oil And Juice (printable PDF)
- Mixed Fruit Juice (printable PDF)
- Nas Naran Lime Juice Manufacture (printable PDF)
- Passion Fruit Juice (printable PDF)
- Toddy Palm Wine (printable PDF)
- Legumes, beans and grains
- Chinese Rice Grinder (printable PDF)
- Coffee Processing (printable PDF)
- Tofu And Soymilk (printable PDF)
- Packaging and bottling
- Bottle Washing And Steam Sterilising (printable PDF)
- Canning Food (printable PDF)
- Crown Cork Machine (printable PDF)
- Filling And Sealing Packaged Foods (printable PDF)
- Packaging Materials For Foods (printable PDF)
- Pickles and vinegars
- Chutneys And Sauces (printable PDF)
- Fruit Vinegar (printable PDF)
- Green Mango Pickle (printable PDF)
- Lime Pickle (printable PDF)
- Pickled Cucumber (printable PDF)
- Pickled Dry Salted Lime (printable PDF)
- Pickled Papaya (printable PDF)
- Pickled Vegetables (printable PDF)
- Pineapple Peel Vinegar (printable PDF)
- Preserves
- Bottle And Jar Cooling System (printable PDF)
- Food Labelling (printable PDF)
- Jam Jar Sealer (printable PDF)
- Jams Jellies And Marmalades (printable PDF)
- Lime Marmalade (printable PDF)
- Mango Jam (printable PDF)
- Packaging Food In Glass (printable PDF)
- Passion Fruit Jam (printable PDF)
- Pineapple Jam (printable PDF)
- Strawberry Jam (printable PDF)
- Watermelon Jelly (printable PDF)
- Snack foods
- Banana Chips (printable PDF)
- Cashew Pancakes (printable PDF)
- Chana Chur (printable PDF)
- Cocoa And Chocolate (printable PDF)
- Cured Meat Products (printable PDF)
- Fruit Leathers (printable PDF)
- Gum Sweets (printable PDF)
- Ice Cream Production (printable PDF)
- Making Of Manjarblanco (printable PDF)
- Marshmallows (printable PDF)
- Sugar and Honey
- Information, communication, learning
- 4th National Knowledge Convention English (printable PDF)
- Community Radio (printable PDF)
- Community Street Drama (printable PDF)
- Demonstrations (printable PDF)
- Exposure Visits (printable PDF)
- Knowledge Centres In Bangladesh (printable PDF)
- Knowledge Management Basics (printable PDF)
- Newsletters And Booklets (printable PDF)
- Podcasts Why How (printable PDF)
- Posters (printable PDF)
- Producing Printed Material (printable PDF)
- Public Gathering (printable PDF)
- Resource Centre Manual (printable PDF)
- Storytelling (printable PDF)
- Using Existing Mass Media (printable PDF)
- Wall Newspapers (printable PDF)
- Livestock
- Animal husbandry
- Arthritis In Cattle (printable PDF)
- Beef Cattle Production And Management (printable PDF)
- Bottle Fly Trap (printable PDF)
- Community Based Animal Health Care (printable PDF)
- Conservation Of Indigenous Breeds (printable PDF)
- Diseases Carried By Ticks (printable PDF)
- Fodder Conservation Using A Manual Baler (printable PDF)
- Make Your Own Incubator (printable PDF)
- Salt Licks In Nepal (printable PDF)
- Tsetse Fly Management (printable PDF)
- Beekeeping
- Basic Beekeeping Manual 1 English Part 1 (printable PDF)
- Basic Beekeeping Manual 1 English Part 1 (printable PDF)
- Basic Beekeeping Manual 1 English Part 1 (printable PDF)
- Basic Beekeeping Manual 1 English Part 1 (printable PDF)
- Basic Beekeeping Manual 1 English Part 1 (printable PDF)
- Basic Beekeeping Manual 1 English Part 1 (printable PDF)
- Basic Beekeeping Manual 1 English Part 1 (printable PDF)
- Basic Beekeeping Manual 1 English Part 1 (printable PDF)
- Basic Beekeeping Manual 1 English Part 1 (printable PDF)
- Basic Beekeeping Manual 1 English Part 1 (printable PDF)
- Beekeeping (printable PDF)
- Manufacturing, handicraft, process industries
- Candlemaking (printable PDF)
- Design For A Simple Effective Baby Incubator (printable PDF)
- Paper Based Technologies (printable PDF)
- Soapmaking (printable PDF)
- Metalworking
- A Wheel Manufacturing Technology For Rural Workshops (printable PDF)
- Bench Vice (printable PDF)
- Blacksmithing (printable PDF)
- Car Jack (printable PDF)
- How To Make A Strengthening Ridge In A Bucket (printable PDF)
- Iron Foundry (printable PDF)
- Metalworking (printable PDF)
- Pipe Bending (printable PDF)
- Stacking Chair (printable PDF)
- The Bend Machine (printable PDF)
- Mining and Mineral Industries
- A Simple Retort (printable PDF)
- Gypsum Processing And Use (printable PDF)
- Mineral Processing Milling (printable PDF)
- Pottery and ceramics
- Clay Based Tech Book (printable PDF)
- Clay Based Technology Refrigerator (printable PDF)
- Modifications To A Pottery Wheel (printable PDF)
- Practical Tips For Potters Making Improved Cooking Stoves (printable PDF)
- Textiles
- Wood and bamboo
- Natural resources management
- Social and economic development
- Discovering Technologists (printable PDF)
- What Is Appropriate Technology (printable PDF)
- Economic Development
- Social Development
- Transport and infrastructure
- Wheel Jig (printable PDF)
- Animal transport
- Making A Packsaddle (printable PDF)
- Pack Transport With Donkeys (printable PDF)
- The Donkey Cart And Ambulance (printable PDF)
- The Donkey Cart Frame And Axle (printable PDF)
- Human-powered carrying devices
- Road building
- Waste management
- Best Practices Iswm (printable PDF)
- Health Care Waste Management In Developing Countries (printable PDF)
- Managing Organic Municipal Waste (printable PDF)
- Planning Sustainable Municipal Solid Waste Management (printable PDF)
- Recycling
- Water and sanitation
- Rainwater harvesting
- Cement Mortar Jar (printable PDF)
- DRIP Uganda (printable PDF)
- Domestic Rainwater Harvesting Tank Training Maunal (printable PDF)
- Rainwater Harvesting (printable PDF)
- The Brick Dome Water Tank (printable PDF)
- Sanitation
- Building Toilets In Nepal (printable PDF)
- Collapsing Latrine Pits (printable PDF)
- Compost Toilets 4 (printable PDF)
- Ecological Sanitation (printable PDF)
- Pit Emptying Systems (printable PDF)
- Reuse Of Faeces And Urine (printable PDF)
- Tippytap (printable PDF)
- Training Manual For Eco Toilet Construction (printable PDF)
- Types Of Toilet And Their Suitability (printable PDF)
- Using Biogas Technology To Solve Disposal Issues Of Latrine Waste (printable PDF)
- Ventilated Improved Pit Latrines (printable PDF)
- Water quality and treatment
- Arsenic And Iron Removal Plant (printable PDF)
- Bio Sand Water Filters (printable PDF)
- Clay Water Filter Red Cross (printable PDF)
- Household Water Treatment Systems (printable PDF)
- SODIS (printable PDF)
- Slow Sand Filters (printable PDF)
- Water Supplies For Food Processing (printable PDF)
- Water Treatment Systems (printable PDF)