1. Abstract, Fermentation, 2018 Fermented foods and beverages serve as vehicles for beneficial microorganisms that play an important role in human health and remain the oldest prevalent means of food processing and preservation. Traditional fermented foods are popular in Asia for their nutritional...
  2. Abstract, Frontiers in Microbiology, 2018 Fermentation has been used for centuries to produce food in South-East Asia and some foods of this region are famous in the whole world. However, in the twenty first century, issues like food safety and quality must be addressed in a world changing from...
  3. Abstract, Fermentation, 2019 Fermented foods and beverages serve as vehicles for beneficial microorganisms that play an important role in human health and remain the oldest prevalent means of food processing and preservation. Traditional fermented foods are popular in Asia for their nutritional...
  4. Abstract, Asian Biotechnology and Development Review, 2016 Changes in Earth’s climate at the end of the last ice age brought about seasonal conditions that favoured the cultivation of annual plants like wild cereals, helping to launch the agricultural revolution. Earth’s climate is changing...
  5. 1983-01-01 This report began as a brief examination of the domesticated banteng, a little studied bovine that is an important livestock resource in eastern Indonesia. But the study expanded to include other possibly useful but obscure bovines of Asia: the madura, gaur, mithan, kouprey, anoa, tamaraw, yak,...
  6. Based on thefirstandsecondphases of Kopernik’s Grain Storage Solution experiments, Kopernik found that storing grain in hermetically-sealed plastic drums at full capacity (meaning filled to the top) – and keeping them sealed (without opening the container during the storage period to take out...
  7. Pollination studies in East Asia have been developing rapidly in recent decades. East Asia may provide important information on many aspects of plant-pollinator interactions because of the rich fauna and flora and highly heterogeneous environments that occur there. In this review,...
  8. Tinwa bamboo is a clump-forming, evergreen bamboo with short rhizomes. The erect, thin-walled culms can be 10 - 30 metres tall and 50 - 75mm in diameter with internodes 30 - 45cm long. The plant is widely harvested from the wild for its useful canes. It is also sometimes cultivated, both within...
  9. Check out the new Down Feed Rocket stove in action. Avideoshows how just 4 small sticks can generate lots of heat. The downfeed adapter increases air velocity and reduces the amount of time needed to tend the fire. This stove can be easily built by local villagers for about $3.
  10. Solar roots is an American non-profit NGO offering renewable energy hardware, training, and expertise to people in several countries. Myanmar, Madagascar, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Tanzania, Haiti