News about Productive Use of Energy (PUE)
- World Bank
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The remote village of Doda has a story to tell. Two years ago, artisans like Twalib Matata toiled with basic tools to carve a living from the region’s distinctive Tanga stone, only to have to sell it unprocessed for meager returns.
- GOGLA
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Successful gender-smart approaches require moving beyond simple product modifications to developing comprehensive ecosystems that address women’s constraints while leveraging their strengths as customers, entrepreneurs, and agents of change.
- Puck van Basten
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A Solar-Powered Micro-Mill is Making a Major Impact for Off-Grid Farming Communities
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- Farmers Review Africa
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Small solar projects overseen by private development groups in Kenya are, right now, catalyzing economic and social change. For instance, World Neighbors runs community-centered development projects in Kenya. This is some of what solar panels are doing to help initiate sustainable development among rural farming communities.
- CGIAR Initiative on Diversification in East and Southern Africa
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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.
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- PREO
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The project aimed to demonstrate that solar-powered technologies can transform rural dairy value chains nationally and mobilise collaboration among key players – such as solar technology suppliers, impact investors, dairy cooperatives, and processors – to accelerate the us of solar technologies in rural dairy production, to establish a viable model
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- GNN Liberia
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The water infrastructure is equipped with solar system that provides clean energy services daily to keep the flow and distribution of water to the various water points/kiosks. The facility also has a chlorination unit for purification of the water before it is distributed.
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- Fdi Intelligence
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Over the past few months, South Africans have enjoyed something that would have seemed miraculous only a year ago — a stable energy supply. One factor has been the government’s decision to encourage both householders and businesses to generate their own power from solar systems.
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- Modern Ghana
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For pastoralist communities, who rely on livestock as their primary source of income, the lack of electricity meant that they couldn’t refrigerate milk, process meat, or preserve food. The consequences were severe: milk spoiled quickly in the heat, and the inability to process or store meat meant that valuable resources were lost.
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- Disrupt Africa
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This partnership between two leading Kenyan tech companies – SunCulture and Turaco – aims to address the urgent need for risk mitigation tools, such as insurance, for the most vulnerable populations, enabling and expanding access to healthcare.