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Farming Techniques That Will Feed a Family
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Female farmers in Rwanda and Sudan will learn about what kind of seeds to use, how to farm without chemicals and when to harvest The Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that poor countries will spend up to one hundred seventy billion dollars this year to import food. [...]
Simple Technologies with High Aims
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has educated many exceptional minds, including twenty-six Nobel Prize winners. Participants in the 2008 International Development Design Summit Recently an event took place at M.I.T. to try to think of exceptional ideas for simple, low-cost devices to help the developing world. Sixty [...]
At Home in a Shipping Container
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. An American named Malcom McLean invented a better box and changed the world. He designed the shipping containers that today carry most of the world’s goods. Standardized containers can go on ships, trains or trucks and are easy to load and unload. Malcom McLean was a truck [...]
