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Fifteen Global Inclusive Innovation Challanges
Global Innovation challenges-1: a call for creative connections with children, youth and women When any society learns to live with solvable problems by reinforcing inertia, indifference and also internalizing helplessness, then imagination gets stifled first. Once imagination gets constrained, innovations are unlikely to follow. UNICEF and SRISTI have joined hands to announce a global challenge [...] Read moreIndigenous knowledge from Tanzania:Bulrush-millet brans keep away Scania
The stored grains need to be protected against the attack of insect pest like the large grain borer.The farmers group in Mbozi (Africa) line the floors of the granary with a layer of bulrush millet bran. They fill grains to about half a foot in the granary, then add a layer of bulrush millet bran. […]
Read moreFrom grassroots to global: International competition for scouting innovation
Auta Deogratias The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) announced the First International Competition for scouting grassroots innovations in survival technologies in association with SRISTI and the Honey Bee Network. The response was spectacular with as many as twelve countries participating in it. The countries from which we received responses (figures in the bracket gives […]
Read moreStorage of maize
Farmers of the Wagogo tribe use ash from burned dried dung of cattle to treat maize grains against weevils (beetles) after harvest. The ash is mixed with the grains and kept in storage structures commonly known as ‘Vihenge’. This method of storage has proved to be very effective. Some farmers use ash even to treat […]
Read moreControlling animal diseases
People use the following plants and shrubs to treat different animal and poultry diseases and disorders (Komwihangilo et al.,1993). Euphorbia spp (Mtakalang onyo) stem is pounded and the mother liquor is used to expel retained placenta in cows. Stegnotaenia araliaceae leaves are pounded and mixed with water to treat goats and cattle which experience difficulty […]
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