Food
Solar power helps people grow, preserve, and prepare food, supporting food security at every stage
%
of people face moderate or severe food insecurity (UNICEF)
Sustainable Agriculture
By empowering farmers with new tools, we can foster lasting solutions to hunger and malnutrition. Solar power allows even the most remote, off-grid farms to pump water and irrigate crops. That means farmers can better withstand dry spells and keep their communities fed.
Solar Market Gardens
The Solar Market Garden (SMG) program helps farmers build capacity and resilience using solar energy. By working with women’s farming cooperatives, the program aims to bolster food security, economic opportunity, and gender equality.
Food Storage
One-third of the world’s food is lost post-harvest, and inadequate storage is a major culprit.
Solar-powered refrigerators and freezers help farmers and consumers preserve fresh produce, so it can nourish bodies instead of feeding landfills.
Clean Cooking
Solar is revolutionizing cooking for the 2.3 billion people who still rely on dangerous and polluting fuels. Cooking with these fuels—such as coal, wood, and dung—is laborious, unsustainable, and hazardous to human health.
Solar-powered appliances offer a cleaner, safer alternative, and create new options for food preparation, such as dehydrating produce for year-round use.
Solar Cooking in the Maasai Mara
In Kenya’s Olchoro-Oirouwa Conservancy, Maasai communities live close to nature and far from the electric grid. Daily energy needs have historically been met by burning charcoal, wood, and kerosene, which can be harmful to human health and to the environment. That is beginning to change through a community-led initiative that introduces solar-powered cooking, as well as household lighting, device charging, and new clean water access points.
