Energy

Publications

Green recovery in agrifood chains through sustainable energy interventions

Year: 2025
This report delves into the potential of renewable energy interventions within the agrifood value chains of Zambia, with a specific focus on cereals, dairy, horticulture, tobacco, fisheries, and roots and tubers. 

Feasibility assessment of biogas potential in the Solomon Islands

Year: 2024
A joint study by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) assessed the feasibility of biogas technology in the Solomon Islands, identifying opportunities to transform organic waste, particularly pig slurry [...]

Feasibility assessment for biogas potential development in The Gambia

Year: 2024
The SCALA programme, through its Private Sector Engagement Facility, collaborated with the Government of The Gambia on a feasibility assessment for potential biogas development. This study evaluates the potential of biogas technology in The Gambia in response to energy shortages [...]

Energy Challenge Badge: Bioenergy supplement

Year: 2024
Bioenergy is an important source of renewable energy that can help fight climate change and provide access to clean energy. Currently, bioenergy accounts for 12 percent of total energy consumption and 50 percent of total energy consumption from renewables. This [...]

Hazelnut sector in Azerbaijan - Options for green energy interventions along the value chain

Year: 2023
Azerbaijan’s agriculture sector is vital to the economy and hazelnuts represent a valuable product. In recent years, the hazelnut sector has shown a significant increase in production areas, but the dominating traditional, low-mechanized practices have hindered the increase in production [...]

Renewable energy interventions in the wheat landscape in Uzbekistan

Year: 2023
This report is part of the technical analysis that informs the GEFs project preparation grant application (PPG) under the GEFs food system, land use and restoration (FOLUR) impact programme. The focus of the analysis is on three regions of Uzbekistan: [...]

Sustainable bioenergy potential from crop, livestock and woody residues in Rwanda: An integrated bioenergy and food security approach

Year: 2023
Rwanda is working on identifying sustainable energy solutions to ensure access to energy. Bioenergy is one possible form of renewable energy that countries are looking at to supply part of their energy portfolio. Rwanda currently relies on traditional biomass for [...]

The small-scale fisheries and energy nexus

Year: 2023
The report highlights the complexity and interdependence of energy and agrifood systems, particularly in terms of fish value chains. All actors within these value chains rely on energy at every stage, while current energy usage in agrifood systems contributes to [...]

Sustainable Food Cold Chains: Opportunities, Challenges and the Way Forward

Year: 2022
This report explores how food cold chain development can become more sustainable and makes a series of important recommendations. These include governments and other cold chain stakeholders collaborating to adopt a systems approach and develop National Cooling Action Plans, backing [...]

Bioenergy and food security (BEFS) assessment – Seychelles

Year: 2022
This report for Seychelles looks at the potential for sustainable bioenergy within the country, considering the country context, conditions and delicate habitat, following the bioenergy and food security (BEFS) approach of FAO, and identifies a number of bioenergy pathways relevant [...]
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