Publications AGSE
Maintenant disponible à l'AGSE
Traction Animale: Une Vue schématique
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Strategies For Agricultural Mechanization, The Roles of the Private Sector
and the Government
L.J. Clarke, Chief Agricultural Engineering Branch, February 2000 |
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 Soil
management and conservation for small farms
Joint publication of Land and Plant Nutrition Management Service
FAO Land Water Development Division and Agricultural Engineering Branch
FAO Agricultural Support Systems Division
Soils Bulletin 77
66PP, ISBN 92-5-104499-6 |
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Manual on integrated soil management and conservation practices
Joint publication of AGSE/AGLL/IITA
FAO Land and water bulletin No. 8
214PP, ISBN 92-5-104417-1
(also available in Spanish and the French version is in preparation)
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Practical Guide to Use Knapsack Sprayers
A training and user's manual for lever operated and pressurized knapsack sprayers
Karim HOUMY, January 1999
67pp, ISBN 9981-9842-6-4
(available in French and English version in preparation)
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MOTORIZED SOIL TILLAGE IN
WEST-AFRICA
A survey on the current use and consequences of tillage done with engine-driven machinery.
Gert van der Meijden, May 1998
(also available in French)
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The FAO Standards for Agricultural Pesticide Sprayers are now
available. The documents consist of 2 Volumes:
1. AGRICULTURAL
PESTICIDE SPRAYERS Volume 1: FAO guidelines on equipment quality control and use and FAO
minimum standards
32pp, ISBN 92-5-104118-0
$11.00
(also available in French,
Spanish version will be soon available)
2. AGRICULTURAL
PESTICIDE SPRAYERS Volume 2: FAO technical standards: sprayer specifications and test
procedures
63pp, ISBN 92-5-104119-9
$11.00
Click here for more information
(also available in French,
Spanish version will be soon available)) |
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Agricultural Implements used by Women Farmers
in Africa
is a joint IFAD/FAO Publication. It is available from IFAD and FAO. ISBN 92-9072-008-5,
130pp,
The book documents the study results of a study, conducted in 1997 in Burkina Faso,
Senegal, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. For more information, please see also FAO
Agriculture-21 page |
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Making Each and Every Farmer
Count - Participation in Agricultural Engineering Projects, A guidebook meant to
provide useful examples and hints on how issues on gender and participation can be tackled
in the daily agricultural development project work.
55 pp. colour pictures, cartoon poster,
ISBN 92-5-104069-9 |
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AGSE produces two categories of publications:
- Bulletins published in the series of FAO
Agricultural Services Bulletins.
They can be ordered through your national FAO sale's outlet or from FAO's Publication
Division.
- Occasional papers, available directly from AGSE
An overview of all FAO
publications is available in English, French and Spanish.
Bulletins
The number in the tittle refers to the issue number of FAO's Agricultural Services
Bulletins.
The letters in brackets indicate the language in which the bulletins is available: E =
English, F = French and S = Spanish.
12 - A guide for instructors in organizing and conducting
agricultural engineering training courses.
1985, 100 pp.
ISBN 92-5-101881-2
$10.00
12 Sup. 1 - Elements of agricultural machinery. Vol. I.
1977, 251 pp. (E,S)
ISBN 92-5-100400-5
$26.00
12 Sup. 2 - Elements of agricultural machinery. Vol. II.
1977, 306 pp. (E,S)
ISBN 92-5-100401-3
$31.00
30 - Machinery servicing organizations.
1983, 103 pp. (E)
ISBN 92-5-100346-7
$12.00
40 - On-farm maize drying and storage in the humid tropics.
1987, 69 pp. (E)
ISBN 92-5-100944-9
$10.00
49 - China - Grain storage structures. Report on an FAO/UNDP Workshop
Study Tour, 1979. (E)
1982, 122 pp., (plus 14 drawings).
ISBN 92-5-101154-0
$17.00
50 - China - Post-harvest grain technology. Report of a Study Group in the People's
Republic of China, 1977.
1982, 70 pp. (E)
ISBN 92-5-101196-6
$10.00
52 - Aeration of grain in subtropical climates.
1982, 125 pp. (E)
ISBN 92-5-101264-4
$12.00
62 - Standardized designs for grain stores in hot dry climates.
1985, 142 pp., (plus 25 drawings). (E,F)
ISBN 92-5-102193-7
$19.00
66 - Construction of cribs for drying and storage of maize.
1985, 82 pp. (E,F)
ISBN 92-5-102325-5
$10.00
69 - Construction and operation of small solid-wall bins.
1987, 73 pp. (E)
ISBN 92-5-102535-5
$10.00
70 - Paddy drying manual.
1987, 130 pp. (E)
ISBN 92-5-102603-3
$14.00
71 - Agricultural engineering in development. Guidelines for establishment of village
workshops.
1988, 71 pp. (E)
ISBN 92-5-102663-7
$10.00
72/1 - Agricultural engineering in development: the organization and management of
replacement parts for agricultural machinery. Vol. 1.
1988, 64 pp. (E) Out of print, new version under preparation.
ISBN 92-5-102699-8
$7.00
72/2 - Agricultural engineering in development: the organization and management of
replacement parts for agricultural machinery. Vol. 2.
1988, 213 pp. (E)
ISBN 92-5-102700-5
$17.00
74 - Agricultural engineering in development: warehouse technique.
1989, 123 pp. (E)
ISBN 92-5-102767-6
$12.00
82 - Agricultural engineering in development: design and construction guidelines for
village stores.
1990, 119 pp. (E,F)
ISBN 92-5-102956-3
$12.00
83 - Agricultural engineering in development: tillage for crop production in areas of
low rainfall.
1990, 130 pp. (E,F)
ISBN 92-5-102542-8
$14.00
84 - Agricultural engineering in development: selection of
mechanization inputs.
1990, 110 pp. (E,F,S)
ISBN 92-5-103018-9
$12.00
85 - Agricultural engineering in development: guidelines for
mechanization systems and machinery rehabilitation programmes.
1990, 67 pp. (E)
ISBN 92-5-103024-3
$10.00
88/1 - Agricultural engineering in development: basic blacksmithing:
a training manual.
1992, 79 pp. (E,F,S)
ISBN 92-5-102738-2
$10.00
88/2 - Agricultural engineering in development. Intermediate blacksmithing: a training
manual.
1992, 64 pp. (E,F,S)
ISBN 92-5-102739-0
$10.00
88/3 - Agricultural engineering in development. Advanced blacksmithing: a training
manual.
1992, 89 pp. (E,F,S).
ISBN 92-5-102803-6
$10.00
91 - Agricultural engineering in development: guidelines for rebuilding replacement
parts and assemblies.
1992, 114 pp. (E,F,S)
ISBN 92-5-103109-6
$12.00
92 - Agricultural engineering in development: human resource
development - training and education programmes.
1992, 105 pp. (E,F,S)
ISBN 92-5-103134-7
$12.00
93 - Agricultural engineering in development: post-harvest operations and management of
foodgrains.
1994, 166 pp. (E,F,S)
ISBN 92-5-103108-8
$17.00
99/1 - Agricultural engineering in development: mechanization
strategy formulation. Vol.1 - Concepts and principles.
1992, 80 pp. (E,F,S)
ISBN 92-5-103175-4
$10.00
104 - Agricultural engineering in development: agricultural tyres.
1993, 75 pp. (E)
ISBN 92-5-103287-4
$10.00
109 - Grain storage techniques. Evolution and trends in developing countries.
1994, 292 pp. (E) (F in preparation)
ISBN 92-5-103456-7
$29.00
110 - Testing and evaluation of agricultural machinery and equipment.
Principles and practices.
1994, 281 pp. (E,S)
ISBN 92-5-103458-3
$29.00
112/1 - Pesticide application equipment for use in agriculture. Vol.
1: Manually carried equipment.
1994, 171 pp. (E,S,F)
ISBN 92-5-103582-2
$17.00
112/2 - Pesticide application equipment for use in agriculture. Vol. 1: Mechanically
powered equipment.
1995, 151 pp. (E,S)
ISBN 92-5-103616-0
$14.00
113 - Maintenance and operation of bulk grain stores.
1995, 167 pp. (E)
ISBN 92-5-103489-3
$17.00
115 - Selection, testing and evaluation of agricultural machines and
equipment. Theory.
1995, 82 pp. (E,F,S)
ISBN 92-5-103603-9
$10.00
Human and Draught Animal Power in Crop Production, proceedings of
the Harare Workshop, Zimbabwe, 18-22 January 1993.
Silsoe Research Institute, Commission of the European Communities, FAO
(also available in French)
The Financing of Agricultural Machinery.
David Pullen
(also available in Russian)
Agricultural Machinery Distributors, Importers and Dealers in the UK.
R.F.S. Limbrey
(also available in Russian)
Farm Power Considerations in Farming Systems in sub-Saharan Africa.
Clare Bishop
Brochure on Farm Power (for planners, donors and policy-makers).
Clare Bishop
Checklist for the feasibility study and implementation of grain processing projects.
Annemieke Schoemaker
Gender and Agricultural Engineering, proceedings from the AGROTEC/FAO Workshop,
Zimbabwe, 4-8 March 1996.
Edited by Annemieke Schoemaker and Katja Jassey
Agricultural Pesticide Application - Concepts for Improvements.
Theodor Friedrich
(also available in Spanish)
From Soil Conservation to Conservation Agriculture - the role of agricultural
engineering in this process.
Theodor Friedrich
(also available in Spanish)
Report on the Joint AGPP-AGSE meeting of the FAO Panel of Experts on Pesticide
Specifications, Registration Requirements, Application Standards and Prior Informed
Consent and the FAO Panel of Experts on Agricultural Engineering, Rome, 12-15 May 1997
Gender and Agricultural Engineering, an Overview of current Theory and Praxis focusing
on Sub Sahara Africa, with Case Studies from Zimbabwe and Senegal, Joke Muylwijk and Maria
Smetsers, 1996 (66 pages)
Bibliography on Gender and
Agricultural Engineering for small Farms in Developing Countries, Joke Muylwijk, 1996
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