Resources Tagged: Appropriate Technology

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  1. Bamboo

    2016-10-18 Bamboo’s reputation is largely based upon intrinsic peculiarities of certain varieties. The plant can grow a meter a day and is the staple diet for giant pandas; though a grass, it can grow to 30 meters tall with hollow wooden stems which are stronger than steel; and bamboo has a reproductive...
    Bamboo Bamboo preservation Appropriate Techno...

  2. Appropriate Technology Juice Pasteurizer

    1994-04-19 The “tubular juice pasteurizer,” as it is formally called, strikes me as an “appropriate technology” with unusual promise. It is designed for situations where a large quantity of fruit is available for a limited period of time and for which there is no ready market or where marketing is not...
    Appropriate Techno...

  3. Metal Silos for Improved Grain Storage

    2011-07-20 We share many ideas in EDN for agricultural techniques that can increase crop production. Higher production translates into more food and potentially more income; this is very important, especially for farmers whose livelihood comes from a small piece of land.Another way to increase food supply...
    Appropriate Techno... Post Harvest Agricultural Techn... Food Security Food Storage Grain Silos

  4. Simple Sawdust Cookers

    1995-06-19 Sawdust cookers (or cookstoves) burn sawdust, wood shavings, rice hulls, or similar materials, producing a moderate heat for an extended time.
    Appropriate Techno... Cookstove Sawdust

  5. Capturing Water From Fog

    1995-10-19 Capturing water from fogfor household or agricultural use is a promising technology.
    Appropriate Techno... Water

  6. RIPAT – A Menu Approach in Rural Food Security Promotion

    2017-02-09 RIPAT (Rural Initiatives for Participatory Agricultural Transformation) is a participatory extension approach aims to close the agricultural technology gap as a means of improving livelihoods and self-support among rural small-scale farmers. The approach is as well a documented step-by-step guide...
    Agricultural Trans... Food Security Nutrition Farmer Global South Agricultural Devel... Small Scale Appropriate Techno... Technology Transfer East Africa

  7. Making Bonemeal Fertilizer

    1997-01-19 Information about making bonemeal fertilizer from animal bones.
    Fertilizer Appropriate Techno... Soil Bonemeal Phosphorus

  8. After 10 Years In Haiti Have I Done Any Good?

    2003-04-20 Politically and economically, the ten plus years our family has been in Haiti have been rather tumultuous. There was a coup in October of 1991 against President Jean Bertrand Aristide, then four years of crushing embargo when gasoline cost $20 a gallon and neither tools nor parts could be...
    Appropriate Techno... Rabbits Rural Development Haiti Poultry Irrigation

  9. Indoor Air Pollution from Cooking Fire Smoke

    2004-10-20 Smoke from open fires can be a nuisance, and it can also lead to severe health problems. The Intermediate Technology Development Group (ITDG) has issued a document called “Smoke—the Killer in the Kitchen” that shares statistics on indoor air pollution caused by burning solid fuels like wood,...
    Appropriate Techno... Cookstove Health Smoke

  10. New Advances in Rope Washer Pumps

    2007-10-20 For many years, a popular demonstration on ECHO’s farm has been the rope washer pump, made from materials that are available in any country—PVC pipe, an old tire, rope, washers made from tires, and a little wood. Because it can be made on the farm it can also be repaired by those who made it.
    Appropriate Techno... Pump Water