Tinker, Tiller, Technical change: Technologies from the people/ Matthew Gamser, Helen Appleton and Nicola Carter.
Publication details: North America: Intermediate Technology Publications, 1990.Description: xvii,278p.: ill.; 23cmISBN:- 1853390615
- 21 600 GAM
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Table of contents
Introduction
PART I
Regional overview 3
The coffee pulper in northern Tanzania 6
Residue stoves in Kenya 21
The grate cooking system in Zimbabwe 34
Salt from silt in Sierra Leone 48
Cassava processing innovations in Nigeria 64
The Nigeria cassava grater 80
PART II ASIA
Regional overview 99
Farmers, fabricators and formal R&D- the pipe frame multipurpose tool bar in Gujarat India 103
Blacksmith in Bangladesh 121
Improved ghattas (water mills) in Napal 136
Artificial fishing reef and bait technologies by artisanal fishermen of south-west India 150
PART III LATIN AMERICA
Regional overview 179
Peoples’ innovation in housing construction in 182
Technologies of survival in the slums of Santo Domingo 198
Water, myth and technology in a Peruvian coastal valley 212
Fire, water and innovation in Chilean farming communities 221
From three stone fires to smokeless stoves in Venezuela 233
The adoption and adaptation of solar energy technologies in the Bolvian Altiplano 245
Killing artisanal fishing with kindness in Nicaragua 258
Bibliography 271
includes bibliographic references and index
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