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Modified farm implements in Kenya
In Baringo one farmer has come up with two rather interesting innovations. Murray Roberts is in the business of planting restoring grasslands which involves planting grass seeds in severely degraded...
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Tractor tyres and bush buckets in Masailand
I have just spent a week in the field studying Masailand ecology and community conservation with Princeton University students. The location is not that remote (Kitengela and Olerai within 40 km of...
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Recycling – tyres, motorbike wheels and water pumps
What do you get if you cross tractor tyres, motorbike wheels and a water pump? Well, in Africa you could get anything! Here’s an odd combination of things related to water – recycled tractor tyres cut...
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Modified bicycles in Kenya – 100% Afrigadget!
My good friend Jagi Gakunju who runs the Kenyan environmental cyclists club Uvumbuzi club told me about this project which immediately caught my attention. It’s a collaboration with Africans and a...
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Boys toys in Mathare Valley Slum Nairobi
Amid the squalor in one of Kenya’s most depressing slums, there is a surprising amount of flashy colour and fun Njuguna makes these toys because he like to! His clients are local people in the slum but...
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Solving the flexible biogas digester problems
You’d think that given the amount of cow dung available around rural Africa that biogas would be a big hit right? Well, its actually relatively unknown. The main reason is materials, coast and...
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Poop piki piki for my biogas system
Piki piki means motorbike in Kiswahili This gadget was created to solve a real problem with biogas – getting the dung to the system quickly and efficiently. Motorbikes are the taxi’s of Africa so why...
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Wood Bark Paper in Madagascar
Yesterday I met a lady who takes the bark from a certain type of tree, pulps it and makes paper. This paper is then sold as a specialty gift paper to tourists and others. It’s an example of Malagasy...
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13 year old Kenyan innovator saves cattle from lions with lights
Richard Turere lives in Empakasi,on the edge of the Nairobi National Park, just south of the City of Nairobi. He is responsible for herding his family the livestock and keeping them safe from...
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Dear all, Richard Turere, the 13 year old inventor I posted about here, was selected to audition for TED. For his presentation Stefano Cassini and I made him a video. Many people have been asking how...
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