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Dozens of workshops in Ambanja produce zebu cartscharrettes. One such workshop in the town centre is run by Mr Theodore, <!-- 032 49 341 77)--> who with his team of six skilled carpenters builds and assembles around 50 carts charrettes per year, all manually crafted without the use of electrical power tools.

The design and model are always the same: A simple two-wheeler which easily attaches to one or more zebus. A cart charrette takes about one week to make build and costs 1,800,000 (USD 400).

The humble charrette remains as practical and relevant as they were hundreds of years ago in providing transport to among farmers in distributing transporting their seasonal harvests crops to marketplaces.

The countless farmers who maintain the tradition all deserve an award for their collective contribution to keeping their carbon footprints close to zero.