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SHARING INNOVATIVE EXPERIENCES

Volume 4
Examples of Good Practices in Social Policies, Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge, and Appropriate Technology in the South

Published in partnership with:
Third World Network (TWN)

Social policies

• Promotion of indigenous systems of medicine in India
• Provision of public housing in Singapore
• Model laws for the protection of biodiversity knowledge in developing countries
• Control of private vehicles in urban areas: the vehicles quota system and the area licensing scheme in Singapore

Indigenous and traditional knowledge and practices

• Growing herbal plants in home gardens for health care: India
• The traditional malay house: Malaysia
• Indigenous agro forestry practices in the Cordillera: Philippines
• Rehabilitation indigenous technologies for mud construction: India

Appropriate technology

• Using computer technology to empower the blind: Uruguay
• Rearing spiders as biological pest-control agents: India
• Nadep method of compost manufacture: India
• City farming innovations: India
• Preparation of neembiopesticides at farm level: India
• Water-efficient trench irrigation for horticulture: India
• Sulabh Shauchalayn: low cost sanitation: India
• Protecting diversity in rice: rapid clonal multiplication of rice seed: India