Innovation and the transfer of appropriate technologies are also essential.
"He worked very hard to come up with appropriate technologies that would be easier to implement and maintain in the developing world".
"We want to encourage these appropriate technologies and we want Katine to be the model for the entire district," Egau says.
The Cuban agricultural sector remains highly de-capitalised, but aid organisations can to some degree support it with agricultural materials and appropriate technologies.
Trumpeting the need for "appropriate technologies" at a development conference is only helpful if people don't then run off and build iPad 2.0 apps for African farmers.
Many refugees also adapt their own appropriate technologies, engaging in forms of "bottom-up innovation", often recycling whatever is available to create an entrepreneurial opportunity.
Throughout history, our greatest development advances have come from introducing safe, proven and appropriate technologies to the world's most vulnerable people.
Practical Action has been working in Latin America for 30 years, seeking the protection of the livelihoods of rural communities in poverty through appropriate technologies, such as water harvesting.
"Understand the problem before tackling the technology, put the user first, build tools and not solutions, learn from your failures, don't reinvent the wheel, use appropriate technologies" and so on.
Access to more appropriate technologies.
That involves adopting a new exploration model and appropriate technologies.
