Green Energy Solutions for Enhancing Rural Agricultural Production: A Focus on Solar and Biogas Technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa
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https://doi.org/10.70112/ajsat-2024.13.1.4231Keywords:
Clean Energy, Sustainable Development, Agricultura Production, Food Processing, Climate ChangeAbstract
The development and subsequent application of green energy systems represent a technologically significant method for providing sustainable energy solutions to the prevailing energy crisis. Supporting agricultural production with environmentally sustainable green energy technology offers outstanding benefits for rural areas. Wide-ranging agricultural economic development could be achieved through investment in green energy technologies. This study, therefore, provides an overview of green energy as a solution that can be deployed for rural agricultural production and food processing. Concise systematic review techniques, along with descriptive approaches to solar and biogas energy technologies, were the primary methods adopted for the study. The study revealed that, with the use of various solar energy technologies and biogas production, agricultural production and food processing in rural communities can become less cumbersome and more economically affordable. This is because the technological pathways involved in deploying these energy systems are not complicated, and they align well with the small-scale sizes required in rural communities. From an industrial perspective, the deployment of green energy technologies, supported by reliable policy and financial backing from the government and stakeholders, could significantly enhance investment in rural agricultural production and processing industries in sub-Saharan Africa.
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