“We had to throw away our expectations about what a tractor should be and instead focus on user needs,” explained Guillermo Lankenau, one of the panelists at the seminar hosted by J-WAFS at MIT on February 8th. The event, Smallholder Farming: Strategies for Sustainability and Resilience, brought together MIT researchers studying a variety of food and water issues that affect rural farmers, especially in the Global South. The event drew a crowd interested in the intersection of technology and social issues as they relate to farming practices.
Read more on the J-WAFS website.
