The Water and Energy for Food (WE4F) Portal is now available in French! Developed by the GIZ’s Water and Energy for Food Program, this portal provides up-to-date information on climate-friendly and innovative agricultural practices as well as technologies for saving water and energy while increasing agricultural yields.
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This webinar will explore opportunities for synergy between the goals of rural electrification with mini-grids, women empowerment, and agricultural transformation in sub-Saharan Africa. Diverse group of panelists including mini-grid developers and program implementers will present their experiences and lessons learnt from the ground.
This webinar is organized jointly by energypedia and Power for All. If you have any specific questions about this topic, you can also email them beforehand.
When: 6 Oct, Tuesday at 3:00 pm CET
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KAN2ncPmSOOqIfB5s5hN9g

 

Thank you to everyone who joined our last webinar on, “Powering Possibilities - Lessons Learned from Mini-grid Application in Conflict and Fragile Contexts”! We had over 550 registration and 234 attendees listening to this webinar.
In case you missed it, you can watch the recording and download the presentation here.

 

India-South Africa Cooperation for Biogas from Organic Waste: This article by Tim Holst provides an overview of how an start-up from India explores the idea of selling bio-digesters to produce bio-methane and organic fertilisers from organic waste in Africa.
 

Are you working on Energypedia and want to add links to external websites? No worries, check out this article on how to link external websites!
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Since 2013, the Energising Development (EnDev) partnership is piloting results-based financing (RBF) approaches to enhance energy access markets with funding provided by UK’s Department for International Development (DFID).
With its Result-based Fund (RBF) Facility’s webinar series, EnDev now wants to share lessons learnt and experiences in five webinars between June and November 2020.
Webinar on Accelerating the Off-grid Appliance Market with RBF – E-cooking and Energy Efficiency: Join this webinar to learn more about providing energy access with the help of off-grid appliances: in the framework of the Global Leap Award, CLASP will illustrate how this has been addressed in the past (from Bangladesh to East Africa). Looking ahead, together they will explore the future of e-cooking.
 

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