Featured in Work in progress – 04-2023

Producing the goods

Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) is demonstrating how a solar-powered refrigeration unit and dryer could be self-sustaining and improve food security in Kenya. Project managers Alexander Morgenstern and Norbert Pfanner say that they hope the system will be the first of many.

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05 Apr 2023

Fruit, flowers, vegetables, meat, and fish can be dried in the system. | Photo: KIRDI

In some parts of Africa, up to 30% of agricultural or marine products, such as vegetables and fish, spoil on their way to market due to a lack of refrigeration or preservation facilities. This is due, to a large extent, to the lack of proper electrical infrastructure in rural areas.With its SolCoolDry cooperative project, Fraunhofer …

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