Digital Innovation, Agro Low-Tech & Adapted Tools
Adapted Technologies & Agro-ecological Resilience
Putting adapted technology at the service of farming communities. APTIC-R co-designs simple, repairable, and energy-efficient low-tech systems (solar soil sensors, optimized dehydrators) to bolster rural food sovereignty.
Target audiences & beneficiaries
Smallholder farmers, gardening groups, women's cooperatives, rural makers
Key objectives & targeted impacts
Co-design solar soil moisture sensors and automated drip irrigation systems
Manufacture replacement farming parts locally at the Agbélouvé FabLab
Assist market gardening cooperatives in climate-resilient water management
Priority actions & field operations
Pilot agro-ecological low-tech parcel connected to the Agbélouvé lab
Fabrication of community solar dehydrators for post-harvest preservation
Hands-on repair clinics for irrigation pumps and simple sensors
Projects associated with this domain
Concrete initiatives run by APTIC-R and deployed alongside international volunteers on the ground.
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Solar sensors and low-tech tools for rural farming cooperatives
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