Resources Tagged: Appropriate Technology

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  1. 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...
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  2. FAO - Making Charcoal in Earth Mounds

    The alternative to digging a pit is to stack the wood above the ground and cover the stack with earth. This method is also very old and is widely used in many countries. One finds many variations of the basic method. Studies have been made in some countries to optimise the design. The Swedish...
    Appropriate Techno... Charcoal production Earth Mound FAO Charcoal

  3. Rotary weeder - video

    Access Agriculture Training Video Effective weed management can increase yields by more than 50%, but usually takes a lot of time. As a farmer it is therefore worthwhile investing in labour-saving weed management tools. In this video you can learn how to control weeds in lowland rice using the...
    Appropriate Techno... Farm Equipment Rice AccessAgriculture Weeds Weed Control East Africa

  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. Composting Toilets

    Key Resource 2002-01-01 A composting toilet is any system that converts human waste into compost through the natural breakdown of organic matter. The photo above shows a composting toilet from the late 1800’s. Composting toilets provide a sanitary method to recycle human waste while conserving water and protecting the...
    Composting Toilets Composting Appropriate Techno...

  6. Methane Digester

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    2001-01-01 When organic material decomposes under anaerobic conditions, it produces biogas which is a mixture of methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) with small quantities of hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon monoxide and other compounds. Biogas can be used as a fuel source for cooking, heating, producing light...
    Methane Appropriate Techno... Biogas Digester

  7. Bottle-cap Fertilizer

    2004-07-01 We read an article in Appropriate Technology (Volume 28, No. 3; July/September 2001) about farmers in Niger who used bottle caps to distribute tiny amounts of fertilizer. Despite drought conditions, farmers who used this technique harvested 50 to 100 percent more millet than those who did not.
    Fertilizer Appropriate Techno... Rural Development Soil Health

  8. Making Bonemeal Fertilizer

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

  9. 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

  10. AN Issue #44

    2020-12-14 Featured in this AN The Martinez Airlift Water Pump Do All Parts of the Chaya Plant Contain Cyanide? Cyantesmo Paper for Detecting Cyanide
    Appropriate Techno... Aquaponics Chaya Water Pumps Asia