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With technology, Nigeria’s dependence on noisy, expensive diesel generators can stop
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  • With the right technological solutions—from solar and smart grids to energy storage and digital financing—Nigeria can overcome its energy challenges and unlock massive economic potential. The adoption of renewable energy, coupled with modernised infrastructure and smart technologies, presents an opportunity to transform Nigeria’s energy sector....
iCart Africa Upgrades Solar-Powered Kiosks, Drives Sustainable Innovation in Quick Service Restaurant Industry
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  • iCart Africa, a subsidiary of the Dalsman Group, is setting new standards in the Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) industry by upgrading its solar-powered kiosks to offer advanced features for small food businesses. Since its launch three years ago, the company has worked to empower food entrepreneurs with practical and sustainable solutions....
Solar irrigation: A game changer for climate resilience in agriculture
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  • Category: Business, Livelihood + Living, Technology + Products
  • There is a rapidly growing trend towards adopting solar-powered irrigation systems as a critical adaptive strategy by smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. The El Niño phenomenon has intensified food and water insecurity across southern Africa, including Zambia, resulting in an increase in the adoption of solar-powered irrigation pumps....
Harvesting the sun twice: Energy, food and water benefits from agrivoltaics in East Africa
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  • Category: Business, Livelihood + Living, Technology + Products
  • Food, energy and water insecurity are concomitant challenges facing many communities in East Africa. Agrivoltaic systems – agriculture integrated with photovoltaic panels – address all three challenges, providing low carbon electricity, food production and water conservation on the same land area....
How solar powered refrigeration is transforming local economies
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  • Category: Business, Livelihood + Living, Technology + Products
  • At a bustling market in the Iyana Ipaja area of Lagos, close to the Otta border, Adegoke Tolulope Salimot is taking orders for fish and other produce from customers at her frozen food stall. She has plenty in stock for the day and the week ahead, so her focus is on making sales and customer service....
Farmers’ experiences of mobile electric fences for human–elephant coexistence
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  • Category: Livelihood + Living, Technology + Products
  • Human–elephant conflict is a common problem in places where human activities and elephant habitats overlap, posing a serious threat to livelihoods and elephant conservation. In Gabon, the growing intensity of these conflicts in recent years has made it a key political issue....
The counterfeit components delaying Africa’s energy transition
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  • Category: General Market News, Technology + Products
  • By just looking at a picture sent to his iPhone of a large solar battery, Phillip December could tell why his client was having problems with his solar system. “The battery is fake. Get another one if you can,” he wrote....

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