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Twitter Coverage
- ideasforafrica: Expanding African women's leadership roles in rural communities will help build sustainable agriculture! Happy International Women's Day!
- ideasforafrica: "African Development Bank in ambitious plan to boost farming"- http://ow.ly/1fD4J
- ideasforafrica: "Small farmers optimistic about increasing earnings from outgrowers’ contracts"- http://ow.ly/1efgj
- ideasforafrica: "Gender equality stressed at conference on eliminating food insecurity"- http://ow.ly/1dnj4
- ideasforafrica: "IFAD Urges Members to Strengthen Smallholder Farmers"- http://ow.ly/1cWB2
- ideasforafrica: "Farmers Know What They Need"- a social experiment in rural India, facing the same challenges as rural Africa: http://ow.ly/1bFG1
RECENT IDEAS: POST-HARVEST LOSSES
Solar/Wind Electricity Projects
The Caribbean African Association of Barbados (CAAB) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization registered in Barbados. Our objective is to develop human capacity in Africa and the Caribbean through education, business/ technology and culture. We are currently initiating African rural community projects in the generation and utilization of renewable energy through solar and wind technologies. The main aim of this project is to provide electricity to four rural communities in Nigeria which have no access to the national grid. These projects will tremendously empower the locals by providing light for their homes and electricity for their small businesses. View
Free Market Information for an Effective and Efficient East African Economy
www.eastafricanized.com is a free online platform intended to provide a forum where sellers can meet directly with buyers and be able to get the best rates for their products/services. This way we will make the business environment more efficient and effective. A perfect recipe for sound economic growth. View
Opal Community Agricultural & Vocational Institute (OCATI)
OPAL Community Agricultural & Technical Institute (OCATI) is an initiative by the OPAL Community to establish a training facility for the benefit of the community and other people who have been living in Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps in northern Uganda for over 20 years during the insurgency and war that raged the region from 1986 to 2006. In the medium- to-long term the institute may graduate into a national centre of excellence for Agricultural and Engineering studies serving the entire nation. View
The Acceleration of Innovation
The Full Belly Project is working to develop simple, locally produced, income-generating technologies for developing countries. Historically, developed nations transitioned into a diversified work-force from agrarian based economies, with the assistance of locally produced agricultural devices. These devices increased yields, and income, and reduced menial labor. The Full Belly Project is performing a needs assessment to determine what Farmers in Malawi believe they need to increase their incomes and efficiency. The survey results of this survey will provide us with a prioritized list of needs, which will drive our future research and development. Once the survey is complete, we will open our website up to the world to participate in the development of simple agricultural devices. Our network of entrepreneurs will then receive training on how to mass-produce each device to sell to the local farmers. By using the "wisdom of the crowds" and local entrepreneurs The Full Belly Project will truly "Accelerate Innovation". View
Dehydration of Vegetable Products
The project is to set up a dehydration plant that will be able to dehydrate over 100 tons of raw vegetables in the long run. The raw materials are potatoes, cabbages, kale, carrots, onions, tomatoes etc, for packaging and selling them to the needy in the arid and semi arid regions of our country and other neighboring countries. These products are perishable in nature and the only way to increase their shelve life is to dehydrate or dry them. These products are the only form of source of income in the region due to its situation in high altitude and heavy rains (wet conditions) for the small scale farmers. If initiated, land that has been discarded will be put into better use by growing these products in large quantities, we estimate that over 50,000 small scale farmers will benefit. The proposed project is to be set up in MOLO district KENYA that has been faced with numerous problems that have left tens of thousands of small scales farmers in extreme poverty. Some of these problems are: 1 The region has been faced will tribal clashes since 1992 2 Remoteness of the region from the main market, Nairobi which is more than 200km away 3 Neglect by the government, no income generating project has ever been initiated in the region 4 Lack of cash crop that can be depended on as an income generating Advantages of this project: 1 Farmers will have a source of income 2 Food stocks will be increased in the country to feed the needy 3 Increased production due to proper use of the land idle land that has been left by the victims of the clashes 4 Improve living standards of the poor of the region 5 Increasing the shelf life of these products View
CABLE TV MMDS project looking in Africa
look MMDS business in africe View
Rural Internet Kiosks
The Rural Internet Kiosk (RIK) is an independent self contained 100% solar powered kiosk featuring three industrial design computer terminals a manned administrator terminal, and broadband wireless Internet connectivity. RIK has been designed to help bridge the digital divide in Africa and concentrates on connecting rural areas is high percentage of the population who have no access to ICT infrastructure. View
Rural Internet Kiosks
The kiosks are designed for deployment in any location in rural Africa, whether the infrastructure is in place or not. By using solar panels and satellite internet access (soon to be more cost effective with the launch of the O3B satellite network), we are able to reach those people waiting on the other side of the digital divide. View
Harnessing Conflict to Generate Prosperity
Using unresolved conflict to tap into the potential of sub-Saharan Africans, resulting increased food production, improved respect for women, decreased violence, and improved morale. View
Promote Conservation of Biodiversity by Helping Africa Cocoa Producers
Briging support to cocoa farmers can lead to the reduction of human pressure on natural ressources, thus promote biodiversity conservation. Action such cooperatives,micofinace institutions, good prizes for their products, provision of fertilisers are therefore recommanded View
