{"id":57567,"date":"2017-06-28T11:28:58","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T08:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atpsnet.org\/stage\/?p=57567"},"modified":"2017-06-28T11:28:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T08:28:58","slug":"technology-appropriate-for-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atpsnet.org\/stage\/technology-appropriate-for-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology appropriate for Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Technology appropriate for Africa<\/h1>\n<p><i><b>Disclaimer:<\/b>\u00a0 The information and opinions expressed on this page do not necessarily reflect the views of the ATPS Network. <\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"time\">Posted on 17<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0May,\u00a02012by\u00a0<strong>Mr. DANIEL WASONGA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Africa and Kenya has its 80% population living in rural farms with only 20% in urban, yet it cannot feed its population .This is direct opposite of the Developed countries with only 20% of rural population feeding the rest of 80%. It is time we develop appropriate Agricultural technologies suitable for African Agriculture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"clear\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology appropriate for Africa Disclaimer:\u00a0 The information and opinions expressed on this page do not necessarily reflect the views of the ATPS Network. Posted on 17th\u00a0May,\u00a02012by\u00a0Mr. DANIEL WASONGA Africa and Kenya has its 80% population living in rural farms with only 20% in urban, yet it cannot feed its population .This is direct opposite of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":528,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Technology appropriate for Africa - African Technology Policy Studies Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/atpsnet.org\/stage\/technology-appropriate-for-africa\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Technology appropriate for Africa - African Technology Policy Studies Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Technology appropriate for Africa Disclaimer:\u00a0 The information and opinions expressed on this page do not necessarily reflect the views of the ATPS Network. 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