Progress achieved in the development and diffusion of rural technologies

Abstract

The Science and Technology Section of the Natural Resources Division has undertaken some activities through its science and technology programme, in the development and diffusion of rural technologies. Some of these activities are undertaken through TCDC programme such as the implementation of an ECA/INDIA project concerning the establishment of a Rural Technology Demonstration Centre in Dakar, Senegal; some demonstration units for rural technologies within the context of the implementation of the third and fourth cycles of UNDP through ARCT/ECA/UNDP Project, RAF/82/039 and RAF/87/068. The aim of this paper is to present how these activities have been undertaken and also the main progress achieved in the development and diffusion of rural technologies in Africa through ECA during 1988-39.