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Both CTA the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation and the Agromisa Foundation felt a need to add a booklet on animal draft power to AgromisaÃs Agrodok series. Marg Leydens, who
then was the Agrodok publication coordinator, came across Draft Animal Technology, a manual for a Bachelor of Science Course in Agricultural Engineering, which I had completed in 1997. This manual is
a reflection of part of my work as Farm Power and Machinery lecturer at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. Marg invited me to write an Agrodok booklet on animal draft power. We soon realized that animal
draft power implied a scope that was too wide for the Agrodok series. Though we decided to limit the subject to donkeys, all facets of donkey labor should be addressed, including animal care in the broadest
sense, training, harnessing, back-packing techniques as well as the description of suitable implements for transport and crop cultivation.