This manual presents essential information on how to plan organize and manage a briquette production training event by an NGO or development organization. It follows each step of the production process with trainer notes, enabling the trainer or extension worker to provide full briquette training and follow-up.
Fuel Briquettes can be made from everyday agricultural and commercial residues such as weeds, leaves, sawdust, rice husks, carton board and scrap paper. This is a unique yet proven technology that reduces fuel wood use and deforestation.
The Legacy Foundation and its projects have tested the briquette making process over ten years in a wide variety of environments and conditions--in urban and suburban and rural areas in Malawi, Haiti, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Nicaragua, Peru, Mali and the United States.