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Manual 5e

From:

GTZ "A guide to make your own Maendeleo One-Pot Jika"

Download Gaia Manual 5e "Simple Stoves - Jika"


40 Green World Actions

Download or read the manuals describing how to set up low-cost or no-cost systems to improve environment and livelihoods


Spider Flower. The leaves are one of the many local leafy vegetablesBooklet 30 Local Leafy Vegetables

About various nutritious leafy vegetables locally found in Africa. How to grow and use them


The primed maize on the left emerges much betterBooklet 29 Priming Seeds

How soaking seeds for half a day increases survival and yields.
Also in Portuguese


A drip irrigation system at EPF ChimoioBooklet 28 - Drip Irrigation

How to make your own low cost drip irrigation system


Booklet 25e - Biopesticides

About natural pesticides and how to use them


Booklet 24e - Soil Conservation

How to avoid soil erosion and loss of valuable topsoil and nutrients


Booklet 23e - Conservation Farming

About the sustainable system - Conservation Farming


Booklet 21e - Protected Areas

On how to restore and protect a natural area


Booklet 20e - Tephrosia

About the efficient biopesticide - Tephrosia


Booklet 19e - Nursery Production

About production of seedlings in a nursery


Booklet 18e - Water Posts

About maintenance of wells and water posts


Booklet 17e Bilharzia

What you should know about bilharzia


Rope pumps can be built and maintained locallyManual 15e Build a simple rope pump

Download the manual


1400 families in Southern Province already use such stovesManual 13e Firewood saving stove of clay

See the manual made by the Total Water Programme in Gwembe, Zambia


Manual 13.1e Fuel saving clay stove from Malawi

A manual with detailed photos of how to construct a portable clay stove - from IFSP, Malawi


Manual 12e The Arbour Latrine

Link to Peter Morgan's instructive manuals for alternating pit latrines


Manual 11e

Describes how to use the jatropha plant for efficient fencing of fields against animals, and how to use the oil from the seeds as lamp oil, for soap making or as diesel.


Manual 10e

Describes how to use the Moringa tree as fencing, leaves for food, seeds for cooking oil and water purification.


Manual 9e

Describes how to use the plant Tephrosia - not only to improve the soil and reduce erosion, but also against problem insects in the crops


Manual 8e

Describes how to build a simple cooling system for food products from bamboo or other basket material.


Manual 7e

Drawings of box solar cooker, which can be built with reflective sheet material.


Manual 6e

A manual of how to build a briquette press, which can be used to produce briquettes from waste paper, leaves, sawdust and other organic material.


Manual 5e

Describes how to build a fuel saving stove made of clay - the Jika from East Africa.


Manual 4e

Describes how to build a solar cooker from cardboard and reflective material such as opened soft drink cans.


Manual 3e

Describes in details how to build a biodigester to produce biogas and fertiliser from animal dung using tubular plastic.


Manual 2e

Describes in details how to establish a fish pond and how to achieve a good production of fish.


Manual 1e

Describes the CF system in details - a system based on no burning, permanent planting holes, preparation in the dry season, keeping the ground covered, crop rotation, and continuous weeding.


Booklet 10e

A description of how to build a system to collect rainwater from the roof by using a tubular plastic tank in the ground.


Booklet 8e

Describes how to use leguminous plants to improve soil fertility. By growing crops between rows of these plants - alley cropping, or by using them for an improved fallow system.


Booklet 7e

Describes how to harvest rainwater in the soil by growing crops between rows of vetiver grass. Describes also how to reduce water consumption for watering vegetables or flowers by using drum drip irrigation.


Booklet 6e

Describes how to reuse wastewater from kitchen and bath in a safe way either by using a reedbed system of vetiver grass, or by producing duckweed in a water tank.


Booklet 5e

Describes how to make safe drinking water by using solar radiation, and how to purify turbid water (unclear because of dissolved material) with seeds of the moringa tree.


Booklet 4e

Describes how to make malted grains, which can be used for improving the nutritional value of the traditional baby foods in Southern Africa. Describes also how to make fermented gruel as a way of decreasing the frequency of diarrhoea.


Booklet 3e

Describes how to make soy milk, soy yoghurt and the soy "meat" used in the food.


Booklet 2e Solar Drier

Describes how to build a solar drier for drying fruit and vegetable so that the vitamins and minerals are preserved for periods with limited access to these.


Booklet 1e Vermiculture

Describes how to create good compost by using earthworms to transform waste material into enriching nutrients for the garden.


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