Featured in Spark of a yellow sun – 07-2022

Tripling land use in West Africa

An international team is investigating agriPV applications to help rural parts of West Africa increase productivity by tripling land use. Countries can take dual land-use ideas a step further in Mali and The Gambia, for example, by growing food, producing solar power, and harvesting rainwater with solar modules and their installed structures, according to Fraunhofer ISE’s Jessica Berneiser and Brendon Bingwa.

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pv magazine

18 Jul 2022

Source: Fraunhofer ISE

Partners from Germany, Mali and The Gambia are combining insights from agricultural science, socioeconomics, and solar energy to demonstrate the opportunities of agriPV in the two West African countries. The goal is to end up with a deeper understanding of the interactions and synergies between food cultivation, rainwater harvesting, and energy production.Mali and The Gambia …

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