Archive for November, 2010
Transport – key to increasing incomes of family farmers?
Today I met Brian Kabeta on his farm near Pemba, a couple of hours drive south of the Zambian capital Lusaka. Brian is one of IDE’s success stories: Before IDE introduced him to the treadle pump, he carried buckets of water by Ox cart from the nearby river to a small plot of cabbages and [...]
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I have just left Ethiopia where I visited Ziway in the Rift Valley where IDE is field testing a radical new way to for poor farmers to pump water for irrigation in the developing world. IDE has gone back to 19th Century technology - but using the power of the sun rather than fossil fuels to create steam and drive a water lifting [...]
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