Blogs about: Access To Technology
Featured Blog
Mobile phones and rural business
Some farmers are liaising with buyers who drive from Kenya. Before, they may have waited days for the buyer to arrive. Now,they can stay at their farms until the buyer calls to say he is nearby. Read … more →
Sustainable Agriculture
Mobile phones and rural business
Maryanne wrote 2 months ago: Some farmers are liaising with buyers who drive from Kenya. Before, they may have waited days for th … more →
Methodological diversity in pest control.
Maryanne wrote 2 months ago: Does the research project on Insect Resistant Maize for Africa (IRMA) mean that the agribusiness is … more →
Impact of Climate Change and Bioenergy on Nutrition
Maryanne wrote 2 months ago: Background: Unacceptably Slow Progress against Hunger and Malnutrition Food security has deteriorate … more →
What ICRISAT Thinks about Rising Food Prices
— 1 comment
Maryanne wrote 2 months ago: Battling Rising Food Prices with Productivity-Boosting Science So should we just wait and weather th … more →
Comparing and Integrating Farmers' and Breeders' Evaluations of Maize Varieties in East Africa
Maryanne wrote 2 months ago: The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT), therefore, started a breeding program … more →
Cameroon: Phone farm
Maryanne wrote 2 months ago: What does a poor farmer in Cameroon do when something goes wrong? “The leaves on all my tomato pla … more →
Meanwhile at One Laptop Per Child
digitalequality wrote 2 months ago: Last week saw a One Laptop Per Child conference where they revealed the ’second generation wil … more →
Google-mapping South African violence
digitalequality wrote 2 months ago: More maps - this time a site’s been set up to monitor the recent spate of xenophobic attacks i … more →
Back to the beginning - mapping inequality
digitalequality wrote 2 months ago: So in my first post I’ve already got diverted onto funky new products - the portable light - t … more →
The contribution of genetic engineering to the fight against hunger in developing countries
— 1 comment
Maryanne wrote 3 months ago: The foreseen future of food shortages and genetic engineering This article explaining how and why th … more →
Uganda sets up biotechnology centre to study cassava
Maryanne wrote 3 months ago: Uganda’s scientists have set up a biotechnology centre at the National Crops Resource Research Ins … more →
Information Economy Report 2007-2008: Science and technology for development: the new paradigm of ICT
— 2 comments
Maryanne wrote 3 months ago: It explores how ICTs help generate innovations that improve the livelihoods of the poor and support … more →
Uganda to produce biofuel from cassava
Maryanne wrote 3 months ago: Ugandan scientists have received a grant of $94,000 (sh160m) to conduct a regional study to produce … more →
Millet - more than just a food item
Maryanne wrote 3 months ago: For small-scale farmers In the Sahel zone, millet and sorghum are virtually sacred basic foodstuffs. … more →
"Technology transfer is extremely important to developing countries."
Maryanne wrote 3 months ago: By Annick de Framond In June 2001, I had the opportunity to travel to Mali with the Syngenta Foundat … more →
Securing the Lynchpin: More Bandwidth at Lower Cost
Maryanne wrote 3 months ago: “Without sufficient bandwidth and its effective management, African universities cannot meet t … more →
Australian Grain Technologies releases two new feed grade wheat varieties with top rust resistance
Maryanne wrote 3 months ago: DUBBO, Australia - Australian Grain Technologies (AGT) new Feed Grade durum wheat Zulu, and Feed Gra … more →
Organic farming + genetic engineering = The new organic?
— 1 comment
Maryanne wrote 4 months ago: The future of food may depend on an unlikely marriage: organic farmers and genetic engineering. Ther … more →
International Commission Calls for ‘Paradigm Shift’ in Agriculture
— 1 comment
Maryanne wrote 4 months ago: A commission of international agriculture experts unveiled a series of reports on Wednesday calling … more →
Have your say. Start a blog.
See our free features →
An 
Contraption
