News about solar irrigation
- UNHCR
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With Project Flow, UNHCR is pioneering a smarter way to solarize diesel-run water systems while cutting costs, reducing emissions, and improving daily life for people forced to flee and their hosting communities.
- Isaiah Esipisu
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Solar irrigation has become a reliable, relatively low-cost, clean-energy solution for agricultural water management in areas with high incident solar radiation.
- Amare Haileslasie, Principal Researcher
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What happens when farmers, financiers, innovators, and policymakers are brought together in one room? A recent multi-stakeholder dialogue held in Hawassa, Ethiopia on scaling solar-powered irrigation offered an answer.
- Aimable Twahirwa
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Estimates compiled from administrative data by Rwanda’s agriculture and resources board show that 87 farming cooperatives, especially from drought-prone zones in eastern Rwanda, are using solar-powered irrigation to increase crop yields by delivering precise amounts of water, thus conserving water resources.
- Joseph Kirby
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Even though clean energy is often referred to within a limited context of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, it also offers innovative solutions to existential insecurities across communities worldwide.
- IRENA
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Known as the “water tower of West Africa,” Guinea has some of the most significant agricultural potential in the region. Yet, despite favourable natural conditions for agriculture, yields per hectare are low. These yields also remain well below the level needed to make agriculture the main driver of economic development in the country.
- 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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- NewsDay
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“We are talking about close to US$60 million. It cuts across all the provinces in this country and, in fact, the one in Hakwata village, which is a mini-grid facility, we are talking about close to US$2,5 million,” Odusola said in an interview with NewsDay Business.
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- KT Press
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The introduction of a solar-powered irrigation system is not just a technological marvel; it’s a beacon of hope for farmers like Jean Marie Vianney Murekezi, who, for years, have battled the whims of unpredictable rain.
- Bizcommunity
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In the Global South, where agriculture forms the backbone of rural livelihoods, farmers face ongoing challenges, including limited access to modern agricultural technologies and climate change impacts.