Working at the Mvumi Rural Training Centre, a rural NGO at Participatory Technology Development in the period 1990-1994 I did applied research on a large number of issues:
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The economics of zero-grazing
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Alley cropping and fodder banks
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Sunflower oilpresses
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Biogas
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Variety trials on sorghum and millet
In total 13 potential innovations were reviewed on their technical, social (incl. gender) and environmental merits. The results can be read in A Farming System Analysis of the Wagogo, semi-pastoralists in Dodoma, Central Tanzania. The work was also the basis for extensive paper on the role of research in rural development.
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- Farmer happy with sheet erosion
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- Discussing alley cropping
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- Taste trial with new cereal varities
