Research Brief: Mapping for Social Resilience
Basin communities in rural Tanzania benefit from climate vulnerability mapping. Denis Macharia shares findings from newly published research. Increasing...
Engineering for Change
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
Clay Pot Coolers: Keep Produce Fresh Without Electricity
Introducing the Guide to Assembling, Using, and Maintaining Clay Pot Coolers, the result of a collaboration by MIT D-Lab, the World Vegetable Center (WVC), and Institut d’Economie Rurale (IER)....
The Compendium of Demand-Driven Technologies for Rural Entre...
A Compendium on Demand-Driven Technologies for Rural Entrepreneurship India’s Rural Technology Action Group (RuTAG) has catalogued dozens of essential technologies that have emerged from rural India. Indians have developed...
Two Human-Centered Designs Win the Innovate for Impact Sieme...
Two engineering design teams that placed people at the center of their design process won the Innovate for Impact: Siemens Design Challenge, announced in a virtual awards ceremony on...
How Food Waste is Engineered into Useful Products in a Circu...
Foods destined for the landfill can have a second life as engineered products. Companies are taking waste such as coffee grounds and spotted fruit that won’t sell and converting...
E4C Visualized: The Siemens Design Challenge Impact and Idea...
Can conscientious design change lives in the world’s underserved communities? In an effort to demonstrate that design can make a difference, hundreds of engineers and product designers have submitted...
Top Eight Ideas for Better Water and Food in the Siemens Des...
We are pleased to announce the eight finalists in the Innovate for Impact: Siemens Design Challenge. Our international panel of expert judges carefully distilled these eight from hundreds of...
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E4C Visualized: Food Waste and Its Solutions
About one-third of the food grown for people to eat never makes it into our mouths. Food loss occurs...
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Design Inspiration: How Puerto Rican Farmers Are Bootstrapping Cooling Tech
Enter the Innovate for Impact: Siemens Design Contest to solve post-harvest loss challenges like low-cost food refrigeration. Puerto Rican...
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Where to Start: Design AgTech Solutions to Scale
Join the Siemens Design Challenge for a chance to win one of two $10,000 first-place awards. Bob Rabatsky has...
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Design Tips for Post-Harvest Loss Reduction Technology
Join the Siemens Design Challenge for a chance to win one of two $10,000 first-place awards. Benson Maina has...
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Research Brief: Showing Videos Improves Adoption of New Agricultural Techniques
Animated videos on phones and other devices may be an effective method of teaching new agricultural techniques to farmers...
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Takeaways for Engineers and Entrepreneurs from the Vertical Farming Market Report
The vertical farming market was estimated at $3 billion in 2018 and is predicted to hit $20 billion by...
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A New Resource for Smallholder Farmers: 100 Under $100 Tools to Reduce Post-Harvest Loss
Global post-harvest food loss has a long list of elegant solutions. And at least 100 of them cost less...
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Software for Soil: Computer Assisted Design can Check Erosion
The soil is in trouble. About one-third of the world’s land is moderately to highly degraded, suffering from erosion,...
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The Adoption of Technology Is Key to Reducing Losses in Mango Value Chains
Mango season closes this month on Kenya’s coast, seeing some mango harvesters continue to employ the traditional method of...
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The GFCC Report Envisions High-Tech Farms of the Future as a Means of Survival
Articles about the future of food and farming have proliferated online for years, including on this site, and they...
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