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2022
Safe off-grid brooder for Cameroonian poultry farmers
Eric Verploegen, MIT D-Lab
Daniel Sweeney, MIT D-Lab
Converging trends in climate change, mining, and agriculture: Analysis of hydrosocial relations over desalination and glaciers in Chile
John E. Fernández, Department of Architecture
Scott D. Odell, MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative
2021
Impact of near-term climate change on water availability and food productivity in Africa
Elfatih Eltahir, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Improving smallholder farmers’ welfare with AI-driven technologies
Y. Karen Zheng, Sloan School of Management
A sliding vane energy recovery device for photovoltaic-powered brackish water reverse osmosis desalination
Amos Winter, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Hybrid evaporative and radiative cooling as a passive low-cost high-performance solution for food shelf-life extension
Jeffrey C. Grossman, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Evelyn Wang, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Gang Chen, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Mobile evaporative cooling rooms for vegetable preservation
Daniel Frey, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Leon Glicksman, Department of Architecture
Eric Verploegen, MIT D-Lab
2020
Enhancing water affordability for vulnerable urban households in the United States
Gabriella Carolini, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Lawrence Susskind, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Reduction of risk from water- and food-borne N-nitrosamines by induction of the Nrf2 chemo-protective pathway in mammals
John Essigmann, Center for Environmental Health Science, Department of Biological Engineering
Low cost water testing and disinfection
Susan Murcott, MIT D-Lab
2019
Evaporative cooling technologies for fruit and vegetable preservation in Kenya
Daniel Frey, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Leon Glicksman, Department of Architecture
Eric Verploegen, MIT D-Lab
Designing supply chain platforms for smallholders in Indonesia
Joann de Zegher, Sloan School of Management
Piloting evaporative cooling technologies to improve vegetable shelf-life and farmer income in Western India
Eric Verploegen, MIT D-Lab
Anish Paul Antony, MIT D-Lab
QuantiSoil: Commercialization of an on-site soil analysis system for smallholding farmers
John Hart, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Chintan Vaishnav, Sloan School of Management
2018
Anthropogenic soils of the Amazon: Origins, extent, and implications for sustainable tropical agriculture
Dorothy Hosler, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Heather Lechtman, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Taylor Perron, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Purifying water from boron contamination with highly selective metal-organic framework (MOF) membranes
Zachary Smith, Department of Chemical Engineering
Supermolecular nanostructure gels for chelation of arsenic from drinking water
Julia Ortony, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Decentralized torrefaction for producing high-yield, irrigation-saving fertilizer
Ahmed Ghoniem, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Kevin Kung, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Assessing climate vulnerability of West African food security using remote sensing observations
Dara Entekhabi, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Manufacturing and marketing E. coli test kits to promote safely managed drinking water and improved public health in Nepal
Susan Murcott, MIT D-Lab
Jeffrey S. Ravel, Department of History
What controls arsenic contamination in South Asia? Making sense of two-decades of disjointed data
Charles Harvey, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Scaling a decentralized biomass torrefaction reactor for localized fertilizer production that improves farmers’ yields and reduces irrigation needs
Ahmed Ghoniem, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Kevin Kung, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Alex Slocum, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Conservation credits for groundwater management
Christopher Knittel, Sloan School of Management
Ariel Zucker, Department of Economics
Nick Hagerty, Department of Economics
Gokul Sampath, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
2017
Electrochemical nitrogen fixation for distributed fertilizer production
Karthish Manthiram, Department of Chemical Engineering
The potential for private irrigation in Senegal
Stephen Graves, Sloan School of Management
Bishwapriya Sanyal, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
In-situ particle characterization in emulsions for field-scale quality assurance in the dairy industry
Sanjay Sarma, Office of the Provost, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Distributed water harvesting from air in water-stressed and remote areas using metal-organic frameworks
Mircea Dincă, Department of Chemistry
Evelyn Wang, Department of Mechanical Engineering
2016
Development of low-cost water filter using sapwood xylem
Amy Smith, MIT D-Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Rohit Karnik, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Active materials for heavy metal extraction from water
Timothy Swager, Department of Chemistry
Floating, heat localizing solar receivers for distributed desalination
Gang Chen, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Initial exploration of a root suction irrigation system
Amos Winter, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Xuanhe Zhao, Department of Mechanical Engineering
2015
Advancing water and food sustainability through improved understanding of uncertainties in climate change and climate variability
Susan Solomon, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Kenneth Strzepek, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Center for Global Change Science
Leverage Points: Opportunities for increasing food production in developing countries
Dennis McLaughlin, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Erica James, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Enabling distributed water quality management by dry sample preservation and centralized analysis
Rohit Karnik, Department of Mechanical Engineering
John Hart, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Chintan Vaishnav, Sloan School of Management