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The Full Belly Project

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  • Excellent work. A whole series of systemic improvements could grow out of this one ingenious tool. Next step - teach locals carpentry and metalworking skills and set up a workshop to make those machines out of salvage material. This will save energy and money in transport and empower communities even further. And in light of global food and energy insecurity, encourage farmers to use some of the time freed up by the machine to plant crops for local sustenance, not just monoculture cash crops, in order to reduce dependence on imported commodities. Just my unapologetically opinionated ecologist's two-cents. ;) Peace.
    ingrado, 2 months ago | Flag as Inappropriate
  • There's no feeling like seeing the delight of people or someone you have helped! I loved it.
    ch12055, 2 months ago | Flag as Inappropriate
  • Thats a good invention, he saw a problem and decided to look for a solution, thats how i think it always should be. Great job, you saved them time and money to the employers! (dont know bout the employees replaced by the machine but speed and efficiency makes more money to the country) we should all be part of the solution not the problem!
    Roy, 3 months ago | Flag as Inappropriate
  • I might beg to differ here. This is EXACTLY what this festival is about. An entrepreneur who has found his calling in life, does his part by making an amazingly simple contribution to people who actually appreciate it, and probably doesn't sit around waiting for Wall Streeters to step up, eventually take control of things and screw it all up by trying to profit from it. Will it make a good film for the 21st Century? Possibly, who knows. This is a good start.
    MulberryEnt, 3 months ago | Flag as Inappropriate
  • I am sick of this type of tragedy. You could make something more interesting and more shinny. Whole world knows that it is a hard life if you are African, but kids and sick people who are working... Come on guys, that is to much for this kind of festival. This is a good idea, good movie, but not for this, this is for movies from 21st century. Good luck!
    jonny, 3 months ago | Flag as Inappropriate
Uploaded By: robhill
4 months ago
Description: Five hundred million people around the world depend on the peanut as their primary source of protein. Hand-shelling nets a villager in Africa ten pounds of nuts per day, producing little more than arthritis. A simple appropriate technology, the universal sheller, allows that same village to shell three-quarters of a ton in the same time, transforming the time spent chasing a daily meal into opportunities to address the educational, health and economic issues in their lives.

Tags: agriculture appropriate technology economic development full belly project peanuts poverty

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