Globally an estimated 1.5 billion people live in smallholder households. In Asia and sub-Saharan Africa smallholder farmers produce up to 80% of the food consumed. As a group, however, smallholder farmers are among some of the most disadvantaged and vulnerable in the world – struggling with food security, energy availability, market access, training and climate…
Off-grid energy solutions continue to take hold in Uganda, though 30% of the population is still expected to lack access to electricity by 2030. Affordability remains a challenge to the uptake of off-grid energy. Increased ‘productive use’ of energy has the potential to increase productivity and income, thereby driving further uptake in off-grid energy. These…
The POWERED accelerator programme is part of the wider POWERED programme launched by Shell Foundation, the UK Government and DST Government of India in 2017. The accelerator programme supports social enterprises to expand their businesses and, by doing so, increases economic empowerment of women-owned businesses in the Indian energy space. This learning report was produced…
How does productive use biogas appliance innovation contribute to increased energy access, to rural livelihoods and to the development of biogas as a utility? Smallholder farmers are among some of the most disadvantaged people in the developing world, without access to technology, training and financing to improve productivity. There are an estimated 570 million smallholder…
by Seth Silverman and Morgan DeFoort, Factor[e] Ventures Smallholder farmers are among the most underserved populations in the world – and there are a lot of them. Over 2 billion livelihoods are supported by small farms, with the majority residing in the developing world [1]. We know that smallholders can be more productive and can…
SF partners Sistema.bio and SMV Green have both been recognised by the prestigious Ashden Awards 2019. Sistema.bio was presented with the Clean Cooking Award for its work to bring clean biogas to farmers in Latin America, Africa and India. Its innovative and affordable biogas system turns animal waste into clean and odourless cooking fuel whilst producing…
Aceleron has undertaken two projects with another of our partners, Bboxx, to investigate the viability of replacing lead-acid batteries currently in use with Aceleron’s advanced Li-ion offering. The Bboxx pilot has demonstrated the ability for Aceleron to successfully build and deploy advanced Li-ion batteries that are fit for purpose and have a number of advantages…
KEY FACTS Servicing more than 30,000 households and empowering 23 waste picking entrepreneurs Created over 250 predictable livelihoods for wastepickers Diverting over 1000 tonnes of waste per month away from landfills Setting up a 30 tonne per day organic waste to compressed bio gas facility Hasiru Dala Innovations is a social enterprise that is focused…
HIGHLIGHTS Wood energy makes up over 80% of African primary energy needs Trees and forests provide one of the most cost effective ‘climate solutions’ The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is one of the world’s leading conservation organisations working to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends in over 70 countries around the world.…
S4S Technologies is an Indian food dehydration and preservation company with a solar-powered farm-based supply chain. It installs patented solar powered dehydrators at farm level to convert fruit and veg into value added dehydrated products. S4S then buys back these produce from women farmers and sells them in B2B and B2C markets to general assured…