Student’s simple cooler box to ease farmers’ post-harvest worries
Beatrice Kimani, the University of Nairobi student who has developed a simple cooling innovation to help smallholder farmers reduce post-harvest losses. Photo Credit: Zablon…
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Long live the smallholder
As recently as 12,000 years ago, therewere only four million people on planetEarth, and their numbers had notreached one billion until the early 1800s.
