The state of the bioeconomy in Eastern Africa: 2024

Ivar Virgin; Alphayo Lutta; Jacqueline Senyagwa; Philip Osano

Dung beetle rolling its food at Kruger National Park, Lesotho

Feature / Poop is a sustainable alternative source of energy that could help reduce emissions that lead to climate change.

15 April 2021 / About Adaptation, Bioeconomy, Cities, Climate policy, Energy access, Fossil fuels, Household energy and Sanitation

Forest resources are at the heart of the EU’s bioeconomy strategy. How can they be used sustainably?

Perspective / In its push for climate-neutrality, the EU bets high on the bioeconomy. Catch up with the latest debates on the issue.

23 March 2021 / About Bioeconomy, Climate policy, Forests, Land use, Public policy and Renewables

Floating solar panels installed on water supply of neighbouring greenhouses, elevated view, Netherlands. Image: Mischa Keijser / Getty

Defections and death spirals

Perspective / There is great potential for synergies to emerge when gridless technologies for energy and WASH are combined in off-grid settings.

22 March 2021 / About Business, Cities, Disaster Risk, Household energy, Innovation, Sanitation, Transport and Water resources

Solar panels and wind turbine near Ijssel river, The Netherlands. Image: Mischa Keijser / Getty

The bigger the better?

Perspective / This piece explores the influence of scale economies on developments in the global electricity sector.

22 March 2021 / About Bioeconomy, Business, Energy access, Innovation, Renewables and Transport

An impossible tangle of things we can’t understand?

Perspective / A look at the development of grid-based technologies in modern society.

22 March 2021 / About Business, Cities, Ecosystems, Energy access, Finance, Household energy, Innovation and Transport

Rising to the challenge: Samburu woman becomes clean energy champion

Feature / It is not every day that you encounter a convergence of the traditional and the modern in deep rural Kenya, especially in the nomadic north.

8 March 2021 / About Energy access, Household energy, Mitigation, Participation and Sustainable Development Goals

What do we mean when we talk about International Energy Law?

Other publication / This chapter offers some conceptual clarity on international energy law.

14 January 2021 / About Energy access and Household energy

Emerging bioeconomy opportunities in Africa: A case study of Croton megalocarpus Hutch in Kenya

SEI report / This report explores the value of using of Croton megalocarpus Hutch in Kenya as part of the expansion of the bioeconomy in sub-Saharan Africa.

1 February 2021 / About Adaptation, Bioeconomy, Energy access, Food and agriculture, Mitigation, Renewables and Sustainable Development Goals

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