Plano B - Plan B - In the bubble by John Thackara 9

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DEVELOPMENT EXTRACT

In a sleepy hamlet an hour from Bangalore, I encounter a group of villagers standing around a wide patch of ragi, a grain that is used to make dark bread, spread thinly over the road in a neat circle. Six chickens appear to be eating up the grain, while the villagers watch and chat. Why, I ask, don’t the villaegrs feed the grain in a trough? They laugh, and then explain that the chickens are eating tiny maggots, smaller than our eyes can see, which need to be removed from the grain before it can be stored. It’s a smart, low-tech solution to a pratical issue faced by farmers everywhere. A Google search for “clean bugs from grain” throws up the “Opico Model 595 Quiet Fan Batch Dryer With Sky-Vac Grain Cleaner” that strikes me as a far clunkier solution than the hens.  The word development is often used to imply that we advanced people in the North must help backward people in the South catch up with our own situation. It’s in this spirit that many designers donate their time and expertise to projects such as $100 laptops, emergency shelter, and mobile hospitals. continue…Informações sobre o livro:

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