BeeKeeping: Increasing Pollination and Incomes
Photo: ApiAnon, Araku Valley Andhra Pradesh, India.It doesn't take a lot of upfront cost to start beekeeping and it offers many [...]
Agroforestry: Planting Trees on Smallholder Farms
Belize, by Sustainable Harvest -Empowering farming families in CentralAmerica to restore forests and nourish their communities. Deforestation - often the result of trees [...]
Solar Dehydrators: Zero Carbon Food Security
Preparing fruit for the solar dehydration process,Photo: Gambia Women's INitiativeWomen's cooperatives can collectively finance shared equipment like a solar dehydrator. [...]
Improved Crop Storage Bag = Food Security Upgrade
Photo: One Acre Fund - Jeannette from Kamabuye village, Huye district in Southern province of Rwanda, with rice Purdue University's improved crop storage [...]
Urban Sack Gardening
Photo: Cooper Hewitt: Design for the Other 90% - Kibera Garden-in-a-sackBag gardening gives urban residents a method of providing homegrown [...]
Keyhole Gardens: High-Yielding Beauties
Photo: Catholic Relief ServicesKeyhole gardens, a permaculture innovation, were brought to Lesotho by development workers seeking to address malnourishment, especially [...]
Micro-Drip Irrigation: More Crop Per Drop
Nepalese farmers show off their lucious dry season cucumbers, grown with the use of micro-drip irrigation fed by their solar-powered pump. Photo: ICRISAT [...]
Treadle Pumps: Less Work, More Water
Photo: Practical Action's work in Nepal.Yes, treadle pumps look like elliptical trainers. They replace hand-cranked pumps, taking advantage of the [...]
PeeCycling! Urine = Excellent, Free Fertilizer
Sridevi Govindaraj tours a banana plantation, one of the crops that she testedfor her PhD on using human urine as a [...]
Tools for Women’s Farmer Groups: Seeders, THreshers, and Grinders
Female farmers in low resource regions still perform tasks by hand that take hours, or even days. With a shared [...]
Fertilizer Trees: Raising Maize Yields
This farmer in Cameroon has benefited from intercropping her maize withcalliandra trees. Photo: Charlie Pye-Smith, World Agroforestry CentreCompanion planting is [...]
Super Foods for Nutrient Delivery
Photo: Karen HomerMary Oyunga, pictured here, is an African scientist who studies Vitamin A deficiency, and addressing it with OFSPs [...]
Adapting Crops to Meet Climate Challenges
Photo: C. Schubert CCAFS - the CGIAR Research Program inClimate Change, Agriculture and Food SecurityThis Kenyan farmer, like all agricultural workers, [...]
Biochar: Carbon Capture that Improves Soil
Improving soil with biochar in Cameroonbiochar-international.orgBiochar isn't very photogenic - it is carbonized plant matter. But when added to soil, [...]
Awaiting a Laundry Breakthrough…
Women still do laundry in the developing world by hand, in tubs with washboards, or in streams and lakes. Remarkably [...]
Affordable, Frugal Coolers
While refrigeration requires reliable electricity, there are a number of cooling technologies which help preserve fresh produce and keep milk [...]
Who Doesn’t Want Better Kitchen Equipment?
Industrialized world women have had their pick of labor saving tools for so long we've lost sight of it. But [...]
Parabolic Solar Reflector Cooking – Clean and Green
Photo: Solar Cooking WIki - P-Solar, MoroccoParabolic solar reflectors are large though portable. A pot or kettle is suspended, or set [...]
Solar Box Cookers: Zero Fuel, Zero Smoke, Zero Carbon
Solar box cooker from SKGSanghaSolar box stoves are sturdier than the simpler solar reflector cookers. They have enhanced features like [...]
Clean Cookstoves: an Upgrade with Multiple Benefits
Neja Jujneja, co-founder of Grameen Greenway stoves demonstratesroti baking on their best sellerCooking over fires is standard procedure for hundreds [...]
