Energy access investment, agricultural profitability, and rural development: time for an integrated approach

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http://eprints.org/relation/isVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/107148 http://eprints.org/relation/isVolatileVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/107148 http://eprints.org/relation/issmallThumbnailVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/107148 archive 353 disk0/00/01/75/24 2021-10-19 09:28:58 2024-08-07 14:03:12 2021-10-19 09:28:58 article show Falchetta G. 9187 0000-0003-2607-2195 Energy access investment, agricultural profitability, and rural development: time for an integrated approach pub ECE IACC In rural sub-Saharan Africa, the global poverty hotspot, smallholder farmers account for 80% of agricultural production, with 90% of cropland being exclusively rainfed. A key obstacle to rural development and poverty elimination is the lack of electricity access: less than one in three dwellers have electricity at home. The main barrier to rural electrification is the capital-intensiveness of energy supply infrastructure among sparse communities with low demand density and insecurity of payment. While public governments have largely been unable to channel the required resources, private players are often unwilling to pursue risky and unprofitable household electrification programs. In this context, this perspective argues that the paradigm of rural electrification should be centred around an integrated approach aiming at increasing agricultural productivity and profitability. These bear the necessary potential to enable local income generation and thus also provide an incentive for private energy investment, including in the residential sector. A framework for the integrated approach is proposed and the crucial synergetic role of data modelling and business and policy research to pursue this paradigm is discussed. 2021-10-15 published 10.1088/2634-4505/ac3017 3119 public Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability 1 3 e033002 FALSE 2634-4505 Long-Term Joint EU-AU Research and Innovation Partnership on Renewable Energy (LEAP-RE, H2020 963530) yes info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/963530/EU//LEAP-RE info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess