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Build robust sensors that can alert utilities and communities to microbial contamination before outbreaks occur, even in turbid and intermittently supplied networks.
climate-environment
south-america
peru
contamination
real-time
detection
pathogen
piped
water
build
robust
sensors
alert
global-unspecified
health-biology
rural
environmental
communities
Create desalination systems that minimize energy, brine damage, maintenance burden, and water cost for communities beyond conventional utility networks.
society-governance
africa
cape-verde
desalination
communities
low-energy
isolated
coastal
create
systems
minimize
energy
brine
economics-resources
climate-environment
fishing
social-civic-problems
remote
Develop mapping, treatment, and enforcement strategies where homes, workshops, tanneries, and small factories discharge into the same unmanaged drainage networks.
climate-environment
asia
india
drainage
separating
industrial
wastewater
domestic
informal
settlements
develop
mapping
treatment
economics-resources
society-governance
urban
social-civic-problems
health-biology
open
Sierra Leone, Africa
Design repair financing, local spare-parts networks, remote diagnostics, and accountability models that keep water points functional after initial projects end.
health-biology
africa
sierra-leone
water
maintaining
rural
pumps
donor-funded
installation
design
repair
financing
local
climate-environment
mathematics-logic
public
economics-resources
before
Create low-cost monitoring, recharge, storage, and governance systems for coastal aquifers threatened by sea-level rise and excessive groundwater extraction.
society-governance
asia
bangladesh
preventing
saltwater
intrusion
delta
drinking-water
supplies
create
low-cost
monitoring
recharge
systems
governance
climate-environment
economics-resources
coastal
Map and mitigate heavy metals, flame retardants, acids, and other pollutants leaching from informal electronics-processing sites into drinking-water aquifers.
climate-environment
africa
ghana
informal
detecting
groundwater
contamination
e-waste
recycling
map
mitigate
heavy
metals
settlements
economics-resources
waste
society-governance
global-unspecified
open
United States, North America
Develop affordable, maintainable treatment and disposal approaches for persistent fluorinated chemicals in communities unable to operate advanced centralized treatment plants.
local-regional
north-america
united-states
removing
pfas
small
municipal
water
systems
treatment
develop
affordable
maintainable
health-biology
society-governance
global-unspecified
whether
philosophy-ethics
Build localized early-warning systems that combine shipping, climate, conflict, currency, storage, and market data to anticipate sudden food affordability crises.
climate-environment
asia
lebanon
forecasting
food-price
shocks
import-dependent
cities
build
localized
early-warning
systems
combine
society-governance
climate
global-unspecified
under
technology-computing
Develop credible worker-centered systems that identify recruitment abuse, debt bondage, and wage theft in supply chains that currently rely on superficial audits.
economics-resources
asia
thailand
supply-chain
chains
detecting
forced
labor
risks
agricultural
commodity
develop
credible
worker-centered
systems
society-governance
across
supply
open
Mexico, North America
Create legal, technical, and cooperative mechanisms that protect farmers' ability to save, exchange, and improve seeds while maintaining quality and disease safety.
health-biology
north-america
mexico
securing
seed
sovereignty
communities
facing
corporate
consolidation
create
legal
technical
economics-resources
society-governance
global-unspecified
systems
community
open
Brazil, South America
Identify affordable feed, breeding, veterinary, and manure-management interventions that lower methane without reducing farmer income or animal health.
climate-environment
south-america
brazil
reducing
methane
emissions
smallholder
ruminants
identify
affordable
feed
breeding
veterinary
society-governance
economics-resources
social-civic-problems
interventions
methods
Develop scalable methods to harvest, process, and use invasive water plants without spreading them further or introducing toxins into feed, compost, or consumer goods.
economics-resources
africa
uganda
invasive
turning
aquatic
weeds
safe
local
products
develop
scalable
methods
species
global-unspecified
public
philosophy-ethics
determine
Preserve, improve, and distribute farmer-preferred crop varieties that tolerate local drought, flood, salinity, and pests while retaining cultural and market value.
climate-environment
africa
mozambique
varieties
climate-resilient
seed
systems
locally
adapted
preserve
improve
distribute
farmer-preferred
local
might
actors
social-civic-problems
communities
Map and govern seasonal livestock routes so roads, farms, conservation zones, and private enclosures do not trigger conflict or livestock losses.
economics-resources
asia
mongolia
protecting
pastoralist
mobility
corridors
land
fragmentation
livestock
map
govern
seasonal
wildlife
protected
global-unspecified
reserves
reducing
Develop surveillance and quarantine systems that work across informal nurseries, border markets, and online plant commerce where official controls are weak.
economics-resources
informal
plant
preventing
invasive
pest
spread
trade
develop
surveillance
quarantine
settlements
systems
society-governance
technology-computing
without
public
health-biology
Design cooperative, rental, robotic, or service-based machinery systems suitable for farms too small to justify individual equipment ownership.
economics-resources
asia
india
machinery
improving
access
agricultural
fragmented
landholdings
design
cooperative
rental
robotic
systems
society-governance
across
technology-computing
climate-environment
Create practical monitoring, veterinary access, and disease-prevention systems that reduce indiscriminate antimicrobial use in fish and shrimp farming.
health-biology
asia
vietnam
measuring
reducing
antibiotic
aquaculture
create
practical
monitoring
veterinary
access
disease-prevention
systems
society-governance
economics-resources
climate-environment
technology-computing
Build local value chains for millet, sorghum, cassava, bambara groundnut, and other resilient crops that remain economically disadvantaged against imported staples.
climate-environment
africa
malawi
crops
decentralized
processing
climate-resilient
indigenous
build
local
value
chains
millet
resilient
climate
breeding
economics-resources
varieties
Improve forecasting by combining meteorology, vegetation, field observations, and community reporting so control efforts can occur before swarms devastate crops.
local-regional
africa
ethiopia
predicting
locust
outbreaks
village-level
resolution
improve
forecasting
combining
meteorology
vegetation
science-space
climate-environment
east-africa
pest
regularly
Develop restoration models that reduce emissions and fire risk while providing viable incomes for communities dependent on drained peatland agriculture.
economics-resources
asia
indonesia
restoring
degraded
peatlands
harming
local
livelihoods
develop
restoration
models
reduce
communities
social-civic-problems
might
actors
remote
