Health care practitioners, planners and artisans will find ideas and designs for equipment that can be made locally in relatively small workshops. Alternative materials and fabrication methods are described to meet differing local circumstances.
Will Eaves designed beds, trolleys, wheelchairs and other equipment made from wood, metal tubing and wheels taken from scrap heaps. His plans and designs as well as other developed by health care workers in various parts of the world have now been brought together in the book compiled by Roger...
Manual oil extraction from peanuts or other soft oil-seeds can be a viable enterprise for small businesses. This book describes small-scale processes of oil-extraction for possible use in rural areas, as well as ways to market and distribute the oilcake.
1987-01-01 In many developing countries wood harvesting with hand tools continues on a large scale. With the shift of emphasis towards trees grown by rural people rather than forestry enterprises, it will gain in importance in the years to come. This training manual provides basic information on efficient...
1975-12-01 This survey was primarily directed at helping stimulate solar drying technology for the least advanced sectors of our society. Most of the infrmation contained is designed to assist the researcher of the user of this technology working in rural developing areas. No page numbers, illustrated...
Small-Scale Food Processing describes the stages and equipment needed to process selected foods in each commoditiy and catalogues different sizes and types of equipment. There is also a chapter on packaging, which plays an essential part in the preservation, hygiene maintenance and marketing of a...
1978-01-01 This publication gives directions on building low-technology farming and homesteading structures such as smokehouses and springhouses and more.