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published archive 353 disk0/00/01/95/04 2024-02-12 09:40:01 2024-02-12 09:40:01 2024-02-12 09:40:01 conference_item show 1 Vinca A. 2193 0000-0002-3051-178X Falchetta G. 9187 0000-0003-2607-2195 Ireland G. Tuninetti M. Awais M. 2275 0000-0002-6853-758X Byers E. 2115 0000-0003-0349-5742 Semeria F. Giordano V. pub ECE IACC S3 TISS Sub-Saharan Africa has a large portion of the population with no access to electricity, piped drinking water, or sanitation services. The lack of these basic services also affects farmers that mostly rely on rainfed agriculture instead of irrigation. Given the expected population growth and potential changes in hydrology and crop yield response due to climate change, future development for the region needs to be carefully studied to achieve increased access to basic services and, potentially, synergetic economic benefits in agriculture. Within the LEAP-RE 4 AFRI project, we developed a framework that combines three high-resolution, single-sector simulation models (crop water requirements, electricity demand and rural electricity dispatchment) to a long-term water-energy-land integrated assessment model to explore different scenarios of future development for Zambia. This helps understand which regions would benefit of better water access and irrigation potential due to improved rural electrification. We compare two scenarios of moderate and universal electricity-water access with a current trend scenario, we compare the expected costs and benefits for the rural population, including the economic benefits achievable by improving irrigation standards and crop yields. Although Zambia is a relatively water-abundant region, we focus on it as a case study with a framework that can be transferred to any other country in Sub-Saharan Africa, where climate change impact might have a significant impact on water scarcity, electricity generation potential and crop yields. 2023-04 published 2965 3119 3170 2585 public paper EGU General Assembly 2023 Vienna 23-28 April 2023 conference FALSE The benefits of rural electrification to improve water access and irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa, a water-energy-land assessment framework applied to Zambia. 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/conferenceObject info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess