Food Chain index
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Nuts | Vegetable and root crops | Oils and essential oils | Fruit | Enterprise development and BDS | Equipment | Nutrition and health | Food processing methodology and QC | Packaging | Honey | Fish | Safety and hygiene | Traditional foods | Dairy | Beverages | Medicinal plants | Spices and flavourings | Additives and colours | Sweets and snack foods | Cereals, starch and baking | Fermentation | Sugar | General food processing
Nuts
- Sun-bathed coconut meets market demand. (7)
- Making peanut bars. (21)
- Coconut processing in Vietnam. (22)
- Empowering small-scale cashew processor in Sri Lanka. (24)
- Some kind of nut -you can make snacks, cosmetics and cooking oil out of inchi. (26)
- Global agricultural practices for successful cashew development. (28)
- Harvesting/processing cashews. (28)
- Cashew sub-sector intervention strategy. (28)
- Strategies for addressing constraints in micro-scale cashew processing. (28)
- Sustainable use of the nuts of the soapwood tree in the Alto Mayo region of Peru. (29)
- Small-scale peanut butter processing in Tanzania - the experience of women processors. (30)
Vegetables and root crops
- Cassava. (1)
- Sago product development in Papua New Guinea. (2)
- At the root of tropical diets - cassava and sweet potato. (4)
- Processing a glut of potatoes. (4)
- Mushroom cultivation in Ghana. (10)
- A mouldy old business spawns some money. (14)
- Ways to use sweet potato. (16)
- Cassava -variation on a theme. (17)
- Utilisation of tomato processing by-products. (22)
- Cultivation of the oyster mushroom in traditional brick pots. (23)
- Cassava doughnuts. (24)
Oils and essential oils
- Small-scale oilseed processing. (5)
- The ram press of Tanzania. (5)
- Diminishing returns in Bangladesh’s oilseed sector. (5)
- Traditional technologies ease Mozambique’s oil shortage. (5)
- Technical solutions in Nepal. (5)
- A well oiled industry - essential oil distillation. (5)
- Extracting oil from avocado. (11)
- Decentralised oil processing in Zimbabwe (leader and article). (16)
- Shea butter processing - some problems and possible solutions. (22)
- Essential oil distillation. (24)
- Citronella - the plant of a thousand properties. (24)
- Essential oil distillation in Ecuador. (24)
Fruit
- A date-like snack food from cashew fruit. (2)
- Candied fruit production in Peru. (3)
- Apricot magic in Pakistan.(7)
- The solar drying of persimmon fruits. (10)
- Utilising fruit waste. (12)
- Preparing fresh fruit-cutting transport costs. (16)
- Use of prickly pear fruit. (18)
- Fruit factory in the forest. (21)
- Adding value to bananas. (21)
- Mango ripening. (21)
- Training to process fruit. (23)
- Solar drying of fruits and vegetables in Armenia. (25)
- Production of melcocha and queso de tuna from cactus pear in the centre of Mexico. (26)
- Small-scale production of ready to drink pineapple juice. (27)
- Processing of wild bael fruit for rural employment and income generation. (27)
- The preparation of pectin from tamarind kernel powder. (30)
Enterprise Development and BDS
- Training entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka. (6)
- Decision tree. (6)
- Food processing, small business and entrepreneur development. (6)
- The business plan - a guide to your success. (11)
- Processing for people and profit. (15)
- Food processing training - some problems and possible solutions. (19)
- Success in business - advice from a successful businessman. (21)
- A profitable and sustainable small-scale food processing activity (pickles). (21)
- Training in food processing - a sustainable approach in India. (24)
- Women mean business in Sudan. (25)
- Insights into supplying organic and fair trade markets - using a case study of cashew in El Salvador. (29)
- Market testing new food products with illiterate and semi-literate consumers. (29)
- Starting with the market - the importance of market research. (30)
Equipment
- Tray dryer - adaptability for sustainability. (7)
- Tubular pasteuriser for fruit juice. (10)
- Low cost evaporative cooling chamber. (12)
- Peanut stripper and sheller. (15)
- The design and fabrication of food processing equipment. (18)
- Seasonal profits from the Freezit Making Machine. (18)
- Divergent roller fruit sorter. (20)
- Low-cost multi purpose sand roaster. (20)
- Peanut sheller. (21)
- Appropriate palm kernel shell separator. (21)
- Impulse heat sealer. (21)
- Hand operated cashew cracker. (21)
- A new device to prevent the contamination, loss and wastage of fruits and vegetables. (26)
- Low cost mud solar dryer. (27)
- Development of a low cost cooler to preserve perishable foods in countries with arid climates. (29)
- No more fingertip shelling - the TEK groundnut sheller to the rescue. (30)
Nutrition and health
- Guatemala’s health snacks for children. (8)
- Fighting disease with fortified foods. (8)
- The best lemonade in the world. (8)
- Targeting the vulnerable in Malawi. (8)
- About aflatoxin. (17)
- Weaning foods. (22)
- Small-scale production of spirulina. (24)
- Amirtham - a low cost, ready to eat nutritious food. (26)
Food processing methodology and QC
- Using solar heat to disinfect grain. (7)
- Some economic considerations of drying. (7)
- How to turn waste into food. (9)
- Biotechnology. (13)
- Gluten measurement - QC article. (15)
- The Pearson Square - common calculations simplified. (17)
- Simple methods of quality assurance. (18)
- Simple methods of quality assurance (19)
- Principles of food dehydration. (19)
Packaging
- Packaging in Sri Lanka. (12)
- Packaging in glass - with resource page of contacts. (12)
- Low cost vacuum packaging. (12)
- Slatted wooden crates - transporting mango. (16)
- A simple form-fill seal packaging machine. (17)
- New packaging options for transporting tomatoes in India. (29)
Honey
- Making money from honey. (3)
- Innovations in beekeeping in Bangladesh. (10)
- Quality of honey for export. (14)
- Honey as an antibiotic. (27)
Fish
- Fish smoking - chorker smoker. (1)
- Small scale manufacture of shrimp crackers. (23)
- Improving some traditional Malaysian fish products. (30)
Safety and hygiene
- Safety of street foods in Calcutta. (14)
- Improving standards of hygiene. (14)
- Sanitation and hygiene. (16)
- Manual for the detection of mycotoxins. (21)
Traditional foods
- Food preservation by Turkana people. (19)
- Promoting and protecting traditional food products. (25)
- Ireland's traditional foods. (25)
- Mumu - a traditional method of cooking food in Papua New Guinea. (25)
- Chepangs and chiuri - the use of non-timber forest products in Nepal. (26)
Dairy
- Cheese means business. (6)
- Small scale butter making. (11)
- Paramount dairy. (20)
- Containerised dairies. (21)
- The manufacture of yoghurt and cottage cheese. (24)
- Using tree species to treat milk for palatability and preservation. (26)
Beverages
- Honeybush tea. (20)
- Small-scale processing of cocoa. (23)
- Brewing is womens business. (30)
Medicinal plants
- Herbs that cure. (15)
- The processing and sustainable management of Amazonian medicinal plants. (26)
- Medicinal plants help combat climate change. (26)
Spices/flavourings
- Processing of black pepper. (3)
- Netetou - a typical African condiment. (10)
Additives/colours
- Small-scale annatto processing. (3)
- Production of a natural food colorant from turmeric. (17)
- Natural colouring of food using insect pigments. (27)
Sweets/snack foods
- Making sweetmeats using soy. (1)
- Marketing snack foods in Asia. (1)
- Facing up to competition in Peru - peanuts/crisps. (2)
- Hello chou-chou - Goodbye dal bhat. (2)
- A date-like snack food from cashew fruit. (2)
- Importance of mishti in Bangladeshi culture. (9)
- Making soy channa. (9)
- Candy production. (22)
- The sweet smell of success. (22)
- Barefoot caterers in Sri Lanka. (27)
Cereals/starch and baking
- Taking the water out of starch. (4)
- The food for the future - Quinoa. (4)
- Making the most of Nigerian ogi. (8)
- Baking bread in rural Malawi. (11)
- Bakers yeast. (13)
- Bread making. (18)
- Ecological flour with Pupunha. (20)
- Artisanal production of maltose from cassava starch. (21)
- The happy bread and biscuit factory. (23)
Fermentation
- Fermented foods -Sudan. (13)
- Nata de coco. (13)
- Bakers yeast. (13)
- Yeasts, mould and bacteria. (15)
- Indigenous fermented cereal snacks in Kenya. (15)
- Wadian - a fermented Indian food. (17)
- Tempe - a nutritious food for developing countries. (20)
- Opportunities for fermented food products in developing countries. (23)
- Improving madila- a traditional fermented milk in Botswana. (23)
- Gundruk - a traditional Nepalese fermented food. (23)
Sugar
General food processing
- Old skills, new opportunities: small-scale food processing in Russia. (25)
- Decentralised food processing - fruit ice cream in Peru. (27)
- Food Chain - what impact does it have? (29)
- Information networks - crucial to the success of the food processing sector. (30)