Handbook of Participatory Design for Appropriate Technology
Undertaking truly collaborative humanitarian technology development is really hard. Unexpected factors such as the type and order of activities,...
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Interest: Agriculture
870 million people worldwide are chronically undernourished. Irrigating crops is a simple solution that can double the amount of food a farm produces. But as much as 80 percent of farmland worldwide is not irrigated. Tested machines and new innovations meet that need and others on the farm. From pumps powered by diesel or the sun, drip tubes, mobile apps for weather and market information, low-cost utility vehicles, shellers, driers and much more, innovative design is putting more food on the world’s tables.
Interest: Agriculture
Designing Elephant Repellent in Rural Botswana
At nearly 130,000, Botswana is home to more African elephants than all other African countries combined. Those elephants have begun exploring beyond the national parks, encroaching into areas where...
Open Source Workshop Toolkit: Technology Innovation for Inte...
Few have experienced the unique blend of pains and joys that afflict designers of technology for developing world applications. Now, a hands-on simulation offers that sweet frustration in practice....
Water Has a Bright Future in Solar Pumps
A single weather event does not prove climate change, but the heatwave that is hitting much of the Northern Hemisphere this summer and triggering forest fires from California and...
Technology Access is Ushering in Agriculture’s ‘Data Rev...
A solution to ease some of the pressure to produce food as the world’s population climbs may be the combination of two technologies, satellite data and machine learning. Neither...
The Necessary Trade-Offs When Co-Designing New Technology
The co-design of new technology with communities has benefits and trade-offs. Our colleagues and we at Engineers Without Borders Australia learned something about what is gained and lost in...
Low-Tech Solutions Fight Hunger
Editor’s note: Engineering for Change and the empowering people. Network have been collaborating since 2014. Our partnership is anchored in the common goal of easing poverty through the appropriate...
Made in Guatemala: Clean Water and Nutrition Technology in Central America
Guatemala is a Central American country with great opportunities to innovate. Despite immense natural resources such as rivers, lakes,...
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Hello Tractor’s Business-Saving Pivot from Hardware to Software
The “smart” tractor company closed its manufacturing operation to focus on agricultural ICT. By September of 2016, an agricultural...
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From Charity to Enterprise: Reel Gardening’s Transformation that Led to Sustainable Impact
Editor’s note: This report is based on comments from the panel discussion “Overcoming Barriers to Scale: Lessons from Successful...
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Ten ICTs Connecting Farmers to the World
Internet and communications technologies have transformed farms in the world’s developing and underserved communities. In the past, digital tools...
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From Baby Monitors to Fishing Fleets: Ten Upgrades with Remote Sensors
The cost of electronic sensors and mobile technology has dropped low enough to network hardware and infrastructure even in...
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A “solar hooter” protects southern Indian farms from animal raids
A low-cost “solar hooter” may keep animal intruders at bay on southern Indian farms. The device flashes a light...
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Ethiopia’s 8028 Hotline: Aiding farmers through text and interactive voice messages
Ethiopia’s new 8028 Hotline has handled a deluge of calls from farmers looking for agricultural information. The Ethiopia Agricultural Transformation Agency’s...
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Artificially intelligent traps alert farmers of insect invasions
A new bug trap in development applies artificial intelligence to the ages-old problem of pest control on farms. AgroPestAlert,...
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Bees vs. elephants: From Chad to South Africa, beehive fences deter African elephants from crops
African farmers have dug deep into their arsenals for tools to turn back elephants on midnight crop raids. Guns,...
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C-Innova Demonstrates How Partnerships Benefit Grassroots Movements in Colombia
Engineering for Change ahora publicara artículos en Español para nuestros seguidores en America Latina. Lea este reportaje aquí. Values at odds The...
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