1. 16/6/2015 "Aquaponics is a food production system that combines conventional aquaculturewith hydroponics in a symbiotic environment." (Wikipedia) By combining these two systems farmers are able to increase their yield, decrease costs and deal sustainably with some of the challenges of hydroculture. In...
  2. Meribah Ram Pump, based in Thailand, offers appropriate technology products (ram pumps and bio sand water filters) and related expertise. A downloads page,on Meribah’s website offers plans and other information related to building and installing ram pumps and bio sand water filters.
  3. The BGET provides hands-on appropriate technology training and financial support to village innovators in ethnic minority areas on both sides of the Thai/Burma border. BGET’s Knowledge Base offers a wealth of technical downloads in English and Thai related to renewable energy technologies for...
  4. Practical Action uses technology to challenge poverty in developing countries. We enable poor communities to build on their skills and knowledge to produce sustainable and practical solutions. Technologyis a key to ending poverty. Technology doesn’t mean just physical infrastructure, machinery...
  5. 20/4/2015 The coffee team from IDDS Tanzania was highlighted in Smithsonian Magazine this month with a story about how a self-taught Tanzanian inventor, nonprofit workers, and MIT students collaborated on a potentially life-changing tool for coffee growers.
  6. Appropedia is for collaborative solutions in sustainability, appropriate technology and poverty reduction.
  7. The Horticulture Innovation Lab builds international partnerships for fruit and vegetable research to improve livelihoods in developing countries. The program team and its projects help the world's poorest people break out of a persistent cycle of poverty by improving smallholder farmers’...
  8. 1/7/2004 Leímos un artículo en Appropriate Technology (Volumen 28, No. 3; Julio/Septiembre 2001) sobre agricultores en Níger que usaban tapas de botellas para distribuir pequeñísimas cantidades de fertilizante. A pesar de las condiciones de sequía, los agricultores que usaron esta técnica cosecharon de 50...
  9. 18/10/2016 La reputación del bambú se basa en gran medida en las peculiaridades intrínsecas de ciertas variedades. La planta puede crecer un metro por día y es parte de la dieta básica de los pandas gigantes; aunque es una hierba, puede crecer hasta una altura de 30 metros con tallos de madera huecos que...
  10. 19/4/1994 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...