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Bringing solar irrigation to farmers in rural Africa

Posted on May 13th 2008

Roughly 75% of people living in poverty worldwide are in rural areas where they often lack access to the electricity that could be used to improve farm yields. Stanford researchers are working on a program to bring solar-powered drip irrigation to Benin and assess its effectiveness.

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