Stanford Study: Solar Irrigation in Africa

January 5, 2010

Jennifer Burney, a postdoctoral scholar with the Program on Food Security and the Environment at Stanford University, discusses the impact of a solar-powered drip irrigation pilot project in Benin, West Africa. Burney and her colleagues were supported by an Environmental Venture Projects (EVP) grant from Stanford's Woods Institute for the Environment.

Stanford University
http://www.stanford.edu

Program on Food Security and the Environment
http://foodsecurity.stanford.edu

Woods Institute for the Environment
http://woods.stanford.edu

Video edited by Mark Shwartz, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University
Benin footage courtesy of Jennifer Burney, Stanford University

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• climate
• solar
• freshwater
• Africa
• agriculture
• Stanford University
• alternative energy
• hunger
• food security