Comment by WillAdams

World Bicycle Relief has one approach to the transportation angle:

https://worldbicyclerelief.org/mechanics-of-mobility/

One product which I can still remember back from when Banana Republic was still an obscure and cool and independent company with a charming hand-illustrated catalog was pairs of slippers/shoes made in 3rd world countries where the sole was a repurposed worn-out bicycle tire.... Interesting inversion of the usual order of things.