CATALOGUEInspiring Agricultural Change: Sharefair on Rural Women's Technologies to Improve Food Security, Nutrition and Productive Family Farming.
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AFFORDABLE TECHNOLOGIES - 2Bora Agro-technologies Ltd.Bruce MukuruChinangwa, Mbatata Roots And Tubers Enterprises(Cmrte)Christina LyomboGreentech ContractorsAnd ConsultantHand In Hand East AfricaInstituto De Investigação Agrária De Moçambique (Iiam)KunzwanaJt Agribiz LimitedLarry KeyaMartina MarikiNational Science & Technology Council, National Technology Business Centre, Ministry OfAgriculture & LivestockPeter Chege GichukiSalumu MasolwaSimon MaluguSomali Youth Workers And Equality Movement (Soywem)Tenacious Systems KenyaTotal LandcareViolet Malama
CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION - 9AgroforestryCFADGalaxy United Youth GroupZubo Trust - Ulisumpule GroupAletta HlaleFlorence HabweOngsamwaki
IMPROVED INCOME GENERATION - 12Calista Ngasakwa
Manyakabi Area Cooperative Entreprise (Mace)Orungo Joint Farmers Cooperative SocietySmall Industries Development Organization (SIDO)UN Women Rwanda Country Office
INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY - 14Dajopen Waste ManagementGlymo Enterprises/ Zundu General DealersKenya Agricultural And Livestock Organization (KALRO)Groots KenyaMillenium Village Project, MwandamaMinistry Of Agriculture, Irrigation And Water DevelopmentUN Women Rwanda Office
LABOR AND TIME SAVING - 16Association UenderemaEhtiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency
REDUCED POST-HARVEST LOSS - 17Claphijo EnterprisesCircuit General AgenciesMercy Corps EthiopiaMumoni And Kyuso Organization For Rural Development And Active Participation (Muky-ordap Lngo)Tree Is Life Trust (TILT)
VALUE ADDITION - 19Debby Care Self Help GroupJarangala Women’s Multi-purpose Cooperative - Lulu Works CentreJulie BwireKate’s OrganicsKati Farms (Uganda) LtdSabasaba Agribusiness Cooperative Society LimitedStawi Foods And Fruits Limited
YOUNG INNOVATORS AWARD 2014 - 22‘Utilization Of Tamarillo Fruit(Solanum Betaceum) To Make Juices, Jams,juice -blends And Wines’‘Portable Electro-chemical Aflatoxin Testing Kit’‘Mushroom Growing From Affordable, Readily Available Materials’‘Mobile Application For Livestock Production’‘Farmland Ownership Mapping Software Agrinfo’
Coinciding with the International Day of Rural Women and World Food Day 2014, UN Women’s Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO) in collaboration with the FAO, IFAD and WFP hosts a Sharefair on Rural Women’s Technologies in Nairobi 15-17 October 2014. The Sharefair aims to promote technologies and innovations that support rural female smallholder farmers in the Eastern and Southern Africa region and bring together rural women farmers/innovators, policymakers, academicians, food producers, investors, financial service providers, and other technology innovators.
Women play a key role in ensuring family nutrition and household food security. However, women in agriculture and rural development face numerous constraints when it comes to accessing labour-saving technologies and financial services. There is broad consensus on the need to invest in women farmers to guarantee their equal access to productive resources, technical knowledge and viable markets. Despite this recognition, women have limited exposure to new technologies, lack opportunities to meet each, and rarely get to interact with entrepreneurs and financiers.
Countless small-scale innovations are being implemented in the region that need to be shared, incubated and taken to scale. These innovative, women-led activities can inspire change and ultimately contribute to better agriculture productivity, enhanced livelihoods and improved household nutrition.Studies have demonstrated that by removing gender-related barriers and empowering women in agriculture to fully engage in regional economies would accelerate growth, reduce poverty and improve food security. Indeed, a recent International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) report (2014) noted that agricultural technologies could increase global crop yield by as much as 67 percent and cut food prices to nearly half by 2050.
This catalog documents very briefly the innovations being displayed at the sharefair and provides a quick reference and contact guide.
INTRODUCTION
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BORA AGRO-TECHNOLOGIES [email protected]
Domestic Charcoal Briquette Making Machine, Uganda
BRUCE [email protected] Hifadhi Stove, Kenya
CHINANGWA, MBATATA ROOTS AND TUBERS ENTERPRISES (CMRTE)[email protected] Presser, Malawi
This machine makes averagely 10 briquettes per minute, its manually operated and made of locally available material (wood pieces and few metal pieces), it does not require any welding, it’s handy and gender sensitive, its production cost is approximately USD. 5. The briquette is an alternative fuel source for cooking; can be sold to generate an income; and is made from carbonised agricultural waste.
These are innovations which enable farmers to better manage production at a reasonable price. They are tools and machinery used primarily or entirely to support agricultural enterprise. Agricultural technology can affect smallholder income, labour opportunities for the poor, food prices, environmental sustainabil-ity, and linkages with the rest of the rural economy.
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A portable rocket stove that uses charcoal and firewood. They are made from fabricated metal and clay and over 20,000 have been made and used in Meru, Tharaka-Nithi and Embu.
A machine used to process cassava into high quality flour used for home consumption and confectionary industry. The result of using the technology is: Enhanced production, market and value addition for raw cassava; Labour saving in cassava processing; employment opportunities in the community; increased income levels due to value addition; and improved food safety in processing cassava flour.
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CHRISTINA LYOMBOTelephone:+255 655 107922Tambi Making Machine, Tanzania
GREENTECH CONTRACTORS AND [email protected] Affordable Drip Kit System, Kenya
HAND IN HAND EAST [email protected]’s Chicken Shelter, Kenya
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The tambi maker is made of a stove located beneath a cooking pot filled with cooking oil enough to do deep frying. On top of the pot with heated oil is another pot with holes punched at the bottom. A plunger is used by hand to press a dough made of a mixture of cassava flour and lenticels into the pot with holes, which extrudes thin strands of the dough that then drop into the hot oil in a pot on the stove.
An affordable drip kit feed system for 1000 seedlings that is easy to assemble - farmers can do it by themselves following an installation manual; saves 80% water lost by other systems; and enables labour and time saving - feeding water through system makes it easy just 15minutes to water every 2 days.
The invention is a round meshed chicken shelter made from locally available materials. This enables the farmer to keep chicken enclosed and avoid then straying to neighbours compounds.
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INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO AGRÁRIA DE MOÇAMBIQUE (IIAM)[email protected] of seedlings in trays using local substrate
[email protected] Oven, Zimbabwe
JT AGRIBIZ [email protected] Farm Software, Kenya
A seedling production tray using local substrate such as manure from cattle or poultry, coarse river sand mining, or gray organic compound. The technology was developed to replace the commercial substrate. It also replaces the use of quimical fertilizers such as the NPK 12-24-12.
Clay oven made from farm bricks, anthill clay, and cut off steel rods. The clay oven is used to bake muffins, scones, buns and bread for consumption as well as a bakery business in rural communities. 50 clubs with 150 members have participated in this project.
DairyLive was first released as a professional herd management software program in the spring of 1999. It is international and is bilingual -- it runs in English or Spanish. DairyLIve enables dairy farmers access to affordable technology that supports them in improving their herd performance. It can be used by Small- and Large- scale dairy farmers, Co-operatives, Government, Financial Institutions, Insurance companies, Veterinaries, and NGOs.
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A hand held implement used to apply granular fertilizer to field crops. It is designed to drop accurate, pre-calibrated and recommended amounts of fertilizer to different crop species. The operating principle is based on the ‘walking stick’. Hand pressure on the implement activates a series of spring loads and valves help in controlling the flow rate of fertilizer dropped into/onto the soil from a back pack carried by the operator.
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I-FARM is an online platform that enables farmers access video documented best farming practices and other farming courses with their phones, tablets or Computers and implement on their own farms conveniently. This helps reduce production related losses, increases profit margins. The innovation is accessed online and currently receives 1000 hits per month out of which 8 subscribe to the instruction guides per month.
LARRY [email protected], Kenya
MARTINA [email protected] Information Management System, Tanzania
NATIONAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL, NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS CENTRE, MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE & [email protected] Spot Fertilizer Applicator, Zambia
Web and mobile based application for the management of livestock farms. Enables farmers to keep records of production, expenses, sales and even health status of their animals. This technology is now used by more than 20 pilot farmers in Arumeru district in Arusha region.
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PETER CHEGE [email protected] Fodder Production, Kenya
SALUMU [email protected] Powered Irrigation Pump, Tanzania
SIMON [email protected] Incubator, Tanzania
A temperature controlled room for growing nutritious fodder yet cost effective livestock feed in just 7 days. It uses 80% less water and nutrients since water is fully recycled and 30% less land as compared to conventional methods of farming. By using chemically treated trays and using natural sunlight for photosynthesis the innovation has reduced the cost of installation of hydroponics fodder system by over 90%.
A solar panel converts the sun’s rays into electricity used to power and irrigation pump and deliver water from the source to the point of use. Connected to four sprinklers, the pump is capable of irrigating one acre (1) for 6- 12 hours/day.It is portable and can be transported between fields. The pilot was conducted with two women’s groups in Morogoro.
Poultry incubator applicable to raising of to eight different species of birds - fowl, turkey, duck, Muscovy duck, pheasant, quail, guinea fowl, and goose. The incubator is made from locally sourced materials at a low cost.
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SOMALI YOUTH WORKERS AND EQUALITY MOVEMENT (SOYWEM)[email protected] Irrigation, Somalia
TENACIOUS SYSTEMS [email protected], Kenya
TOTAL [email protected] The TLC Rocket Stove, Malawi
The technology enables farmers to grow crops during the dry season by using solar powered irrigation system to provide water for the crops. SOYWEM has developed systems of planning, implementation and future quality control which ensure that structures are built as quickly and cost-effectively as possible. The cost of all the structures is very low - $30-60 per hectare of irrigable land and sustainable project.
Farmsoft is a Software Solution for managing Farming and Processing of fruit, vegetable, flower, grain, coffee, hop, palm, date (and other) farms. FarmSoft manages on farm processes - planting planning, budgeting, traceability, reporting on KPI’s, costs and performance etc.; and manages packhouse operations - quality, traceability, packing cost management, orders, inventory, sales, dispatch, and logistics.
The Rocket Stove is an affordable, easy to build, easy to scale improved cooking stove. The stove: uses 50% of the fuel to perform the same task as a traditional stove; has a thermal efficiency of over 20% - making it at least twice as efficient as an open fire; is low cost - less than $4.50 USD; and is easy to build - takes less than 30 minutes.
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VIOLET [email protected], Zambia
A simple green house made out of very cheap potato net, no nails but just strings, a few branches from over grown trees on the farm. Ash in this technology is used as a preservative.
In many African countries women are major producers of food and the ones who sustain households and
communities, yet their role is not always recognised. Despite all their efforts, women remain poor and
voiceless. Rural women still face many constraints and problems. For example, as far as land ownership is
concerned, women’s rights to land are usually limited by cultural practices. Women also do not have power to
influence agriculture policy decisions.”
Mercia Andrews, convenor of the South African branch of the Rural Women’s Assembly, a regional network of rural women. August 2014.
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[email protected], to Climate Change, Tanzania
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climate change adaptation
Through educating people on the environmental conservation management, encouraging them to plant trees, and promoting the utilization of fuel improved cooking stoves, the project is contributing to climate change adaptation in Hai District, Tanzania. The project so far has planted 12,500 trees; conducted awareness training on environmental conservation management; promoted the construction of fuel efficient cooking stoves; and provided project beneficiaries especially women the knowledge and skills pertaining nursery development to reclaim the degraded land by planting multipurpose trees and hence assure a sound environmental conservation.
The mission of WFP is to end global hunger. Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the
poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need. WFP supports national, local
and regional food security and nutrition plans.
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[email protected] Techniques for Women Farmers, Democratic Republic of Congo
GALAXY UNITED YOUTH [email protected] Technologies for Improved Food Security, Nutrition and Family Farming, Kenya
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These technologies contribute to eradicating hunger – emphasis is on the physical availability of food; the social, economic and physical access people have to food; and the nutrition, safety and cultural appropriateness or adequacy of food.
ENHANCED FOOD SECURITY
Women are taught how to grow some vegetables and greens in community fields provided by CFAD. Techniques of breeding hens, pigs, rabbits are also taught. To reduce deforestation, the community is organized in nature protection groups and landslide protection groups. These groups are trained in tree planting. Approximately 555 people are reached by the initiative.
Galaxy united youth group transfers technology,and produces, processes and markets, oyster mushrooms with youth and women groups. The food products include fresh mushrooms, dry mushrooms, mushroom powder and capsules, mushroom nutri-flour, and snacks. These are sold in local community and supermarkets. To facilitate technology transfer women groups and youth are trained on site through demonstration and practice.
ZUBO TRUST - ULISUMPULE [email protected] Muyaaya (Mahewu), ZimbabweAn innovative approach that develops an underutilized indigenous plant species (baobab) to improve food, income and nutrition security of poor and vulnerable households in Zimbabwe. Tulisumpule has commercialized the production of baobab muyaaya (baobab mahewu) in Zimbabwe. Over 2,000 thousand 500ml containers (at $0.50 per plastic container) are produced every month and $1,000 is generated every quarter month for 10 women members of the group.
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ALETTA [email protected] Termites to Raise Organic Chicken, South Africa
FLORENCE [email protected] of Foof Products from Neglected and Underutilized Species (NUS), Kenya
[email protected], [email protected] DIMITRA Community Listeners Clubs. Democratic Republic of Congo
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IMPROVED FAMILY NUTRITION
Having learned from her grandparents, Aletta uses organic materials – straw, cow dung, organic waste – to raise termites which she uses to feed chicken thus raising organic chicken that are a nutritious healthy food. She produces on non-arable land.
Involves the use of indigenous knowledge on grains, seeds, leafy vegetables and tubers to produce nutrient dense food products with prolonged shelf-life. Cassava, millet, simsim, and crotalaria are used to produce crackers, noodles, and cookies . The products can be used for health management by the sick, old people, children under five, women in child bearing age and malnourished.
Dimitra community listeners’ clubs are equipped with wind-up solar-power radio sets, sometimes coupled with mobile phones that operate in a fleet, to facilitate their access to information and enable them to communicate with other clubs, community radio stations and other rural actors. There are currently about 1,100 Dimitra Community Listeners’ Clubs in sub-Saharan Africa (Niger, Senegal, Ghana, Burundi, Mauritania and DR Congo).
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CALISTA NGASAKWATelephone:+255 783-692215
Cocoa Grinder, Tanzania
MANYAKABI AREA COOPERATIVE ENTREPRISE (MACE)[email protected]; [email protected] Building for Women Led Households, Uganda
ORUNGO JOINT FARMERS COOPERATIVE [email protected]; [email protected] Building for Women Led Households, Uganda
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These are technologies that enable farmers to improve the income they generate from their activities. These innovations assist women in the sustainable establishment of income generating activities. Generally incomes of women are used for the increase of the well- being of the family - studies generally indicate that the greater the amount of income under women's control the greater amount devoted to their children's education, heathhealth and nutrition.
IMPROVED income generation
A locally made prototype developed to add value to their cocoa through grinding into a powder for sale instead of selling beans. A pilot project has been undertaken in Morogoro, Tanzania.
World Food Programme (WFP) - purchase for progress (P4P) working with Manyakabi Women Group have provided capacity building for MACE staff who were able to work with women in the community and implement projects that resulted in women generating and controlling an income.
World Food Programme (WFP) - purchase for progress (P4P) working with Soroti Rural Development Agency (SORUDA_ has been able to effectively target beneficiaries, initiate, plan and oversee community empowerment activities. The interventions have transformed a poor household whose “leader” is a woman from dependency on relief food aid to a commercially driven and self-sustaining household. 12
SMALL INDUSTRIES DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION (SIDO)[email protected]; [email protected] Capacity Building for Women Groups, Tanzania
UN WOMEN RWANDA COUNTRY [email protected] Field Schools, Rwanda
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ONWorld Food Programme (WFP) - purchase for progress (P4P) programme entered into partnership with SIDO to conduct capacity building training to women groups on entrepreneurship, financial management and savings, business record keeping, good governance & leadership. The groups trained have purchased sunflower oil extractors, grain husking and milling machines, and maize shellers which have enabled them to generate incremental income from their activities.
These schools facilitate agricultural education through participants’ own observations, discussions, and practical field exercises. Each FFS is tailored to each agricultural zone, depending on the ecosystem, rainfall, and length of crop season. Participants receive weekly sessions throughout the crop season. The course enables them to make informed decisions on the overall crop and pest management of their land. The FFS project also sought to equip its members with important leadership, business and financial skills. Each FFS group pooled savings to create a savings and credit scheme for its members. Members can borrow. The project is implemented with Imbaraga Federation, cooperatives, districts and MINAGRI. This technology has improved the life of more than 350 households.
Agriculture continues to be an important engine of growth in the Eastern and Southern Africa region. It employs a substantive proportion of the
population, and is a critical source of food security and nutrition. However, there is scope for improving current levels of productivity in the sector. The region continues to be challenged by erratic climatic variations resulting in
prolonged droughts and expanded drylands, further undermining agricultural production and economic growth. This is why an innovative and
adaptive approach is needed to improve the agricultural sector.
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DAJOPEN WASTE [email protected] Solid Waste Management, Kenya
GLYMO ENTERPRISES/ ZUNDU GENERAL [email protected], [email protected] Zundu Formula, Zambia
KENYA AGRICULTURAL AND LIVESTOCK ORGANIZATION (KALRO)[email protected] Fortified Crop Residue-based feed block supplementsIn
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These technologies enable farmers to improve the ratio of outputs to inputs in their operations. Aside from providing more food, increasing the productivity of farms affects the region's prospects for growth and competitiveness on the agricultural market, income distribution and savings, and labour migration. An increase in a region's agricultural productivity implies a more efficient distribution of scarce resources. Increases in agricultural productivity lead also to agricultural growth and can help to alleviate poverty.
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Dajopen waste management is involved in recycling waste emanating from house hold, market garbage dumping sites and slaughter houses. They have invented (but not patented) processes to recycle waste and make: Organic fertilizer; Garbage enzymes; Biocides; Fermented plant extract(liquid fertilizer); and a simple Maize sheller. The products of the process are applied to crops by smallholder farmers resulting in enhanced agricultural productivity.
This formula that was developed based on local plants, herbs and vegetables has contributed improving productivity and managing health issues in livestock production. This has improved the productivity of the livestock.
KALRO have developed a process for improving the Dry matter (DM) digestibility and Crude protein of crop residues by urea-treatment so as to enhance productivity of livestock. Livestock farmers can provide their animals with complete nutrition via the ‘One Day Complete Ration Blocks’. Fodder blocks are a ‘catalyst supplement ’ , allowing livestock farmers to give their animals a fractionated, synchronized and balanced diet of energy, nitrogen minerals and vitamins.
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GROOTS [email protected], [email protected] Organic Biocides, Zai Pits, Kenya
MILLENIUM VILLAGE PROJECT, [email protected] Mwandama Fertilizer, Malawi
UN WOMEN RWANDA [email protected], Rwanda
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tyGroots Kenya have developed a biocide used for killing crop pests in the farm such as aphids and is also useful for preventing blight in garden peas, potatoes and tomatoes. Farmers in Molo, Kuresoi, Kitui and Kiambu have been able to ensure good crop yields despite pest attacks.
Groots also developed the Zai pits which combine water and nutrient management. These are particularly successful for rehabilitating barren,
crusted soils and clay slopes where infiltration is limited and tillage is difficult.
Mwandama Manure Fertilizer (MMF) is used to improve or increase soil fertility for crop production. The ingredients include animal manure, ash, maize husks, water and some quantity of mineral fertilizer, either for basal or top dressing the crops. So far, more than 5,000 farmers have already used the technology in the Millennium Village Project area alone.
The technology provides an alternative and suitable hatchery in the existing rural conditions using locally available materials as incubators for hatching of poultry eggs. Brick Incubator as a Mini-Hatchery has increased production of day-old chicks under rural conditions within the rural communities of Mzimba and Rumphi in Malawi. The Local Incubator technology is used by over 50 people in this area.
MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE, IRRIGATION AND WATER [email protected] of Brick Incubator as a Mini-Hatchery to increase Poultry Production, Malawi
Utilize greenhouse to facilitate horticultural production in small spaces that would otherwise be challenging in terms of productivity. Project is implemented in partnership with Imbuto Foundation, women’s cooperatives, RAB, NAEB, and Local Authorities. This Project is implemented in 7 Districts of Rwanda (Gasabo, Huye, Kayonza, Kamonyi, Kicukiro, Musanze and Rubavu) and has supported 704 Households, improving the livelihoods of over 400 households.15
ASSOCIATION [email protected], Mozambique
EHTIOPIAN AGRICULTURAL TRANSFORMATION [email protected], [email protected] Operated Enset Decorticating Machine, Ethiopia
MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE, IRRIGATION AND WATER [email protected] of Brick Incubator as a Mini-Hatchery to increase Poultry Production, Malawi
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and communities that are under severe labour stress. The amount of power (time and energy) and the knowledge base a household can raise has a major influence on the household's livelihood strategies and is a major determinant of livelihood outcomes.
Labour- and time- saving
A composite clay oven with a stove which makes cooking much less laborious and much safer. The oven is versatile - used to make breads, cakes, pastries, roast oven for meat and fish. The residual heat can last for as much as 5-6 hours, enough to dry meat and fish and also special vegetables and fruits that can now be stored for longer periods.
The innovation is a treadle powered, foot operated, machine which alleviates the drudgery and eliminates the awkward positioned operation of traditional Enset decorticating. It is labour and time saving. It is also by far more comfortable (ergonomical) to operate. It increases productivity and reduces product losses too. It also improves hygiene of the work (no contact of human hand or feet with food item).
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CLAPHIJO [email protected]; [email protected] Solar Drier, Tanzania
CIRCUIT GENERAL [email protected] Cooler, Kenya
MERCY CORPS [email protected], [email protected] Pit Storage Bag, Ethiopia
These technologies are used to handle agricultural produce immediately after it is produced – they include cooling, cleaning, sorting and packing. Postharvest treatment largely determines final quality, whether a product is sold for fresh consumption, or used as an ingredient in a processed food product. Initial post-harvest storage conditions are critical to maintaining quality.
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A device made locally that uses solar heat to dehydrate fresh fruits and vegetables and extend their shelf life. The solar drier can reduce the moisture content of a product from 60% to less than 10%.
Made using charcoal packed to avoid any seepage of air and kept cool by pouring water from the top and allowing it to seep to the bottom. A cooler measuring 10 feet by 10 feet can accommodate 5 tonnes of fruits/vegetables.
The Post-Harvest Storage Bag is a liner for traditional pit storage. Compared to traditional pit storage, the bag has: reduced grain storage loss significantly (from 31% to nearly 0%); maintained the quality of stored grain (odor, taste & nutritional content); reduced the health risks of consuming molded grain obtained from traditional pit; and has significantly reduced the time that women spend in cleaning the grain for processing.
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MUMONI AND KYUSO ORGANIZATION FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND ACTIVE PARTICIPATION (MUKY-ORDAP LNGO)[email protected], [email protected] silos and Energy Saving Jikos, Kenya
TREE IS LIFE TRUST (TILT)[email protected] Drying Technology to Reduce post-harvest losses, Kenya
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A technology that uses solar drying for food preservation promoted to organised and registered community groups. These groups have been able to reduce post-harvest losses of perishable farm produce. TILT has promoted the technology in two counties (Nyandarua and Laikipia) to a total of 57 community groups. An average group’s size is 25 members.
“It is not about bread. It is about making money." Nigerian agriculture minister Akinwumi Adesina, telling government and
business leaders that the best way to spark an agriculture boom is to focus on profit. March 2014.
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DEBBY CARE SELF HELP GROUPlina. [email protected] Avocado Processing, Kenya
JARANGALA WOMEN’S MULTI-PURPOSE COOPERATIVE - LULU WORKS CENTRE+211911518957 Shea Nuts Processing Technology
JULIE BWIRETelephone: +255 715-799121Soap Production, Tanzania
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These are innovations that change or transform a product from its original state to a more valuable state. They focus on improving existing processes, procedures, products and services or creating new ones. These innovations are sources of national growth through changes either in the kind of product or in the technology of production.
VALUE ADDITION
Debby Care Self help group processes avocadoes to produce avocado milk shake and avocado soap. This enables them to get more income from selling the products rather than raw avocadoes.
The technology involves the collection and processing of shea nuts to produce cooking oil, laundry soap,bathing soap, body butter, lip-balms, mosquito repellents and hair pomade. About 35 men and women earn their living through collecting nuts from the bush and bringing them to Lulu Works Centre.
Production of soap in a cottage industry from palm kernel. The soap is used by low income people for laundry, washing dishes and bathing. The pilot is being carried out in Morogoro.
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KATE’S [email protected] Organic Range of Products, Kenya
KATI FARMS (UGANDA) [email protected], [email protected] Sausages, Uganda
SABASABA AGRIBUSINESS COOPERATIVE SOCIETY [email protected] Banana Value Addition, Kenya
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onKate’s Organics manufacture an organic range of products - teas, juices and honey - formulated from carefully selected organic herbs, spices and whole foods. Their suppliers are women small-holder farmers in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Their products are distributed via retail outlets in East Africa. They have improved the livelihoods of women farmers.
Producing an entirely new fish product from familiar ingredients and therefore offering attractive added value opportunities. The inputs (farmed fish) are sourced entirely from smallholder farmers who are also supplied with inputs (fish feed) and training to ensure reliable and high quality supply. As a result: Sales at WALIMI Cooperative have increased from 500kg to 16,000kgs/month; and, employment has increased from 35 growers to 570 growers.
The cooperative adds value to bananas by making products such as crisps, jam and flour. The process results in: increased income for farmers, increased food security as banana flour is a substitute for maize flour, longer shelf life for bananas which are highly perishable. The assured market for good quality bananas has resulted in an improvement in the cultivating practices for this crop in the catchment area.
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STAWI FOODS AND FRUITS [email protected]; [email protected] Banana Flour Production, KenyaVa
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Stawi Foods and Fruits makes banana flour made from solar dried and milled green bananas. Stawi works with 300 banana farmers who include two womens’ farmers groups in Meru, Kenya, who use solar dryers to dry the bananas. The farmers earn 50% more income by selling dried banana chips/flour than by selling unprocessed bananas to brokers. The drying process creates jobs for women in Meru.
UN Women is the UN entity dedicated to promoting gender equality and brokers partnerships and builds coalitions for change in the region. An
important focus of our work is women's economic empowerment as a driver of growth and development in the region. The UN Women Eastern and Southern Africa Region Office works to significantly accelerate women’s
participation in and benefits from economies and societies in the region with an important focus on the agricultural sector.
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2014 This Award is targeted specifically at students/young scientists (age 35 and below) with innovative
technologies for rural women smallholder farmers and persons with disabilities engaged in smallholder farming. The Young Innovators Award includes four separate awards as follows: Innovations and technologies benefiting women smallholder farmers; Innovations and technologies benefiting People with Disabilities (PWDs) who are engaging in smallholder farming; Communication technologies which promote the dissemination of agricultural innovations; and Agricultural innovations and technologies developed for rural women smallholder farmers within learning and/or research institutions.
YOUNG INNOVATORS AWARDS 2014
‘UTILIZATION OF TAMARILLO FRUIT(Solanum betaceum) TO MAKE JUICES, JAMS,JUICE -BLENDS AND WINES’ By Mr. Rowland MainaJomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya
In response to these problems: unpleasant flavour of the fruit, inadequate commercial utilisation of the fruit in Kenya, high poverty levels among communities where fruit is produced, and an increase in nutrition deficiency issues among pregnant women; Rowland Maine developed a process to add value to the tree tomato. The products of this process have the following benefits: reduce risk of cancer and cardiovascular disease due to presence of antioxidants, strengthen the immune system, antidiabetic, diuretic, antiseptic, throat problem relief, prevention of night blindness, maintains skin health, sows aging, helps in repair of DNA, reduces constipation and improves sperm integrity. The fruits undergo the following process: cleaning and washing, sorting, cutting and scooping, pulping, blending, pasteurisation, and finally hot filling.
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It is a simple, portable electrochemical biosensor that utilizes electroless plated silver as transducer, cysteine immobilized antigen and the free cysteine is blocked with enzymes. During testing the immobilized antigen reacts with the excess free antibodythatantibody that results into blocking enzymes on the sensor. Unblocked enzymes catalyze peroxide to water and 2 electrons which is detected as current. The current is inversely proportional to the concentration of aflatoxin in the sample. Thus, it is an ,an, indirect competitive method which offers much better sensitivity characteristics suitable for rapid field detection of aflatoxin B1. Data input, analysis and output is done by a locally made integrated potentiostat. All the
This technology was developed after it was realized that there were too much agricultural wastes like the bean straw, maize cobs and many others that went into waste. These could be used as substrates for mushroom cultivation. As a result curb food insecurity and generate income. The technology does not involve the use of inorganic materials like nails and iron sheets but only simple structures made from maize stovers and grass. This technology is cheap as you grow the mushrooms on banana leaves. The mushrooms were collected from Kakamega forest and the spawn (mushroom seeds) developed from the mushrooms using bean straw, sawdust, barley straw and wheat straw.
‘Portable Electro-chemical Aflatoxin Testing Kit’ By Mr. Paul Wacoo (born 1979) and Mr. Matthew Ocheng (born 1986) from Kampala, UGANDA.Uganda Industrial Research Institute, Makerere [email protected]; [email protected]
functioning parts are enclosed in a small casing like a telephone with retractable sensors.
‘Mushroom growing from affordable, readily available materials’ By Ms. Pauline Wanjuki Njeru (born 1987) from Nakuru Town, KENYA.
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2014 ‘Mobile application for Livestock Production’
By Ms. Gladness Georg Mwanga (born 1986) from Arusha, TANZANIA.Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and [email protected]
I have developed a mobile and a web application which will be used by farmers, extension officers, researchers and buyers, where farmers, extension officers and buyers use their mobile phones to access service and researchers and other policy makers use web application. As a prototype I have stated by livestock keeper but later it will be expanded further to accommodate crops farmers. General the system offer four servicesOnline extension service; This feature helps a farmer to send query through her mobile phone to extension officer, and remotely extension officer using her mobile phone can preview the animal information and give informed advice e.g.: when the animal was last vaccinated, which medicine used to cure the animal the last time etc. Therefore despite the fact that there are livestock field officers under each ward, some factors such as of transport infrastructure contribute to their inability to serve all livestock keepers in time. The fact that majority of farmers possess mobile phones is a motivation towards bridging this gap. This system handles this matter by allowing available professionals to work remotely and reach all farmers as needed.Access to information; This will assist farm-level decision making by providing timely, relevant, and accurate information regarding market access, farming inputs, research findings, livestock feeds and pharmaceuticals. This information is essential to livestock keepers for them to decide on available market and appropriate price for their products, best farming practices to enhance productivity and best nutritious feeds for their livestock. With this information on their fingertips, they will raise their income and consequently improve smallholder livelihoods and livestock production chains. Recording system, where farmers use mobile phones to store data into the database. This assists smallholder livestock keepers in keeping and managing their production records. Keeping personal information for a long time is tedious and sometimes do not sound so much important to a small scale farmer. Through this system, livestock keepers will be provided with records keeping functionality that will maintain and manage their daily records by providing timely reports to show production trends. These reports will benefit farmers in projecting long term benefits and seeking for loans in community groups.Link livestock stakeholders. This system has incorporated service, that is a charting forum where farmers, researches and extension officers can virtually meet and discuss their issues. It allow user to post and others comment on posts
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AgrInfo is the Google for land related information in Tanzania. It offers up to date information regarding land ownership, land development and suitability, location specific, weather condition throughout the year, authority Contacts (Village Executive Officer), value of land and administrative planning, AgrInfo looks into solving the double selling of land and act as an entry to the title deed processing for the Ministry of Land, by adding a value of using a video clip and photos for the verification and identification of next of Kin. It also wants to facilitate the land investors to invest in a property that is suitable for their intended investment, this will add a value to government easy identification of who owns what, As well looks to partner with Banks to give an opportunity to land owners, associations that can mortgage using the land plots but doesn’t have title deed, where by ownership information will be one of the services to both parts. The biggest of all advantage of AgrInfo service is the up-date information, easy accessibility- through the use of web platform and matching mobile responsive application.
‘Farmland Ownership Mapping Software AgrInfo’ By Ms. Rose Funja (33yrs), Ms. Grace Makanyaga (24 yrs.), Mr. Dickson Msack (24yrs.), Mr. Deogratius Mushi (24yrs) from Dar es Salaam, [email protected]; [email protected]
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