Millions of people across Africa lack access to electricity and it will take many years for national grids to reach all unconnected households, particularly in the vastly dispersed rural settlements farther afield. Faster and cheaper “off-grid” solutions exist, in the form of solar products and mini grids, but delivering these at scale and sus...

WEBINAR: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 9:00AM EDTAgriculture is vital to Niger. It accounts for about 40 percent of the country’s GDP and it is the main employer of labor. Despite being a primary source of income and food for rural dwellers, agricultural productivity has remained low and less than 10 percent of land in the country is irrigated. Climat...

30 Septembre, 2020, 9H – 10H30 (Heure de Washington DC); 14H-15H 30 (Heure de Niamey) L'agriculture est vitale pour le Niger. Elle représente environ 40 pour cent du PIB du pays et est le principal employeur de main-d'œuvre. Bien qu'elle soit la principale source de revenus et de nourriture pour les habitants des zones rurales, la productivité...

In 2017, with burgeoning economic and energy demand growth in the country, nearly 5 million Cambodians lacked access to electricity—only 82 percent of villages and 69 percent of households connected to the national power supply.The CIF’s Scaling Up Renewable Energy Program (SREP) and ADB have worked closely with the Government of Cambodia to re...

Traditional monoculture oil palm plantations, which are largely used for the biofuel industry tend to negatively impact the environment by contributing to land degradation and deforestation.The FIP and IDB supported the Development of a macauba-based silvopastoral system and value chain project in Brazil to establish the first sustainable macauba-b...

Globally, the model of production and consumption where resources are extracted, produced, and disposed only once in their lifetime has proved vastly unsustainable.The CTF and EBRD supported the Turkey Near Zero Waste Program to reduce waste generated by private sector companies by removing barriers to adopting circular economy practices via the pr...