MEMBERS & VISITORS: Ugandan Youth Inventors Fight Food Waste with Biodegradable Innovation Ugandan inventors fighting food waste In this brisk YouTube Short, Ugandan innovators Sandra Namboozo and Samuel Muyita step out of their campus lab and into a Kampala produce market to showcase the tiny, tea-bag-sized Karpolax biodegradable […]

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  MEMBERS & VISITORS: TIA 3500 Solar Dehydrators Set to Revolutionize Africa’s Agricultural Industry The TIA 3500 Solar Dehydrator Africa does not currently have the industrial capacity currently of countries like China or the United States. That does not prevent it from coming up with African solutions to African problems though. Africa does have extreme […]

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  MEMBERS & VISITORS: Research and Development Continues At Tharaka Invention Academy here in Marimanti, the research and development of solar powered food dehydrators continues. In Kenya, we have limited access to the wide variety of industrial processes, equipment, and materials commonly available in modern industrialized states. Therefore, we have to be more creative and […]

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  MEMBERS & VISITORS: Tharaka Invention Academy Practices What It Teaches In Tharaka Nithi County, as well as other parts of Kenya, the issue of food security is paramount. Unfortunately, the bulk of crops which are grown are sold as basic commodities or consumed directly by the farm owners. There is little value added processing […]

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