seminar on research needs and priorities for low cost technology

Appropriate low-cost technologies could promote local community-based development.

Due emphasis should be placed, whenever appropriate, on local, culturally adapted and low-cost technologies;

(a) Low-cost technologies for providing basic needs, such as housing, water, sanitation and health care;

Also, there are new, low cost technologies for household and point-of-use water purification.

The third challenge is that of affordable commodities and low-cost technologies.

Thousands of people are cared for in each of these mobilizations employing low cost technology.

Villages must often start with low-cost appropriate technologies.

In agriculture, the main innovations are to be found in the introduction of irrigation systems using low-cost technologies.

Innovative financing mechanisms, institutional set-up, participatory approaches, private sector involvement and low-cost technologies are part of such approaches.