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Month: August 2009

Food Security: Using Solar Power to Transform Rural Agriculture in Benin’s Kalalé District

Posted on August 16, 2009October 25, 2022

I’ve just returned from Benin, West Africa where I had a chance to see firsthand the remarkable transformation that has taken place in the villages of Dunkassa and Bessassi since the launching, less than two years ago, of SELF’s solar irrigation project in Kalalé District — a poor, dry region in the northern part of the country. Kalalé District consists of 44 villages (~100,000 people), none…

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