intermediate technology
noun[CorU]
ukusECONOMICS,SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
industrialoragriculturalprocessesthat arebasedonresourcesandskillsthat areavailableinpoorercountries:
Theconceptof "intermediatetechnology" wasintroducedby theeconomistE F Schumacher in areportfor theIndianPlanningCommissionin 1962.
Manyfoodcrisescould have beenpreventedby theapplicationofrelevantintermediatetechnology.