See 21 pages of material related to appropriate technologies and projects relevant to Haiti at Appropedia.
In addition, we are looking to feature solutions in:
- Low-cost composting toilets, for inclusion in permanent housing
- Alternative waste treatment solutions for planned communities
- Renewable energy generation, including wind, solar (including solar thermal, cooling, and refrigeration), wave/tidal, small hydro, bioenergy
- Atmospheric water generation
- Permaculture and sustainable agriculture solutions
- Carbon sequestration
- Biomaterials
- Construction techniques and materials
- Recycling of construction debris
- Energy transmission
- Etc.
If these solutions are featured elsewhere, please let us know and we’ll link to these resources here. Otherwise send us a brief summary of your proposed solutions, or join the site as a contributor and provide relevant material in a blog posting, in the Technology category.
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Good and Better Practices for Haiti 1.1
If Haiti and Haitians are to survive and prosper there will need to be lots of changes in agricultural, technological, and social practices. Many current practices are destructive, unsustainable, wasteful and inefficient.
Good and better practices include (in no particular order):
1. Grasses for erosion control, terrace formation, nutrient capture, and improved stove fuels including vetiver, napier, and bamboo.
2. Cultivation and use of aquatic plants for feed, fertilizer, biogas, mulch, and nutrient capture including azolla, water hyacinth, duckweed, and cattails.
3. Aquaculture (pond) production of fish and other aquatic animals.
4. Composting of kitchen and agricultural “waste” using black soldier fly, earthworms, mushrooms, and other organisms to conserve organic matter and nutrients; and hold water in soils to increase crop production.
5. Composting of human “waste” and direct utilization of human urine to conserve nutrients, increase crop production, and reduce transmission of diseases.
6. Use of mulches including chopped banana stems, bagasse, coconut husk, weeds, and tree leaves to protect soil from erosion, conserve nutrients, and increase crop production.
7. Use of herbaceous, shrub, and tree legumes for green manure, cover crops, livestock forage, companion plants, alleycropping, and agroforestry to improve soil fertility, reduce erosion, and increase crop production.
8. Cut and carry livestock feeding systems. This takes less land than free range or tether systems and makes it easier to maintain forage trees and shrubs.
9. Reduced tillage (plowing and hoeing) to reduce erosion and conserve soil.
10. Use of Tithonia (flè soley meksiken) and Lantana ((te soley) to scavenge phosphorus. Tithonia and Lantana can be used for mulch, compost, or goat feed. (Lantana is poisonous to cattle.)
11. Use of improved biomass cookstoves including rocket stoves, gasifier stoves, and improved charcoal stoves to reduce deforestation, fuel gathering time, and smoke inhalation.
12. Use of biochar from gasifier stoves and other devices to improve water and nutrient retention. Biochar can be “charged” with urine.
13. Use of erosion control measures including gulley plugs, terracing, and contour farming.
14. Recycling of metals, plastics, batteries, fluorescent light bulbs, motor oil, ….
15. Better tools for farming, transport, and building including wheel hoes, handcarts, carrying yokes, and concrete mixers.
16. Improved agricultural machinery including mechanical threshers for rice and pitimi, corn and peanut shellers, breadfruit processing equipment, and grain grinders.
17. Simple solar dryers for drying agricultural products including fruits, vegetables, beans, and peanuts.
18. Improved water purification techniques including solarization, ceramic/charcoal filters, and bucket chlorinization to reduce incidence of water borne diseases.
19. Use of leaf crops for improved human and livestock nutrition.
20. Better construction and maintenance of dirt roads including proper crowning and drainage. This will facilitate transportation of agricultural inputs and products and reduce transportation costs.
21. More vocational education especially in the areas of agriculture, forestry, construction, energy, water, sanitation, recycling, and machinery.
22. Use of solar electricity to improve people lives by improving lighting and communications.
23. Use of irrigation to improve production in the dry season. This can include drip irrigation, treadle pumps, gravity systems, and powered pumps.
24. Use of biodigesters to produce biogas for cooking, lighting, and engines. Possible feedstocks include coffee pulp, manure, and aquatic plants.
25. SRI, system of rice intensification, for increasing rice production with fewer inputs.
26. Improve stick buildings through use of metal strapping, metal reinforced ends, and bracing.
27. Reduce radiant heat from roofs (the oven effect) by using radiant barrier coatings, radiant barrier films. Reduce radiant heat and dramatically increase roof life by using white painted “D-rib” roofing.
28. Improve concrete construction through use of better made blocks (vibrated and properly cured), properly mixed and cured concrete, and proper use of reinforcing and voids.
I am working to put together references on all these subjects for anyone who is interested in any of these topics. Currently I am posting at http://haitireconstruction.ning.com/
Robert J. Fairchild. 29 Nov 2012.
As a part of Love A Child’s Agricultural Training Center, demonstrating and providing appropriate technologies to the Haitian community will help to save time and create jobs. Families who implement these ideas will benefit by using less fuel, cooking faster, and improving health and sanitation. To learn more about how appropriate technologies, like rocket stoves and composting toilets, can help Haitian families with sustainable living, please feel free to visit us at http://www.loveachild.com.