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Department of Commercial Crops Fruits & Forestry |
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'solarafrica.network' is an independent agency that both engages in local community projects, and serves as assistance to local government institutions, from 2000, in the field of facilitation and implementation of renewable energies and efficient consumption alternatives. Our office is affiliated to the Department of Commercial Crops, Fruits and Forestry, Ministry of Agriculture, Zanzibar, Tanzania. It is our aim to ease the social and economic implications of a delicate energy scenario, to improve the environmental aspects related to energy consumption, and empower novel and sustainable initiatives in the East African Region as an example for further reproduction. 'solarafrica.network' in the global scenario The subject of renewable energy is of far wider interest than to environmental scientists alone. Any examination of the difficulties fossil fuels cause or their potential solutions, raises a wide range of issues: technology and design, politics, social structure, economics, planning and even history. Our criteria does not overlook this diversity of the energy scenario, but focuses its efforts on much simpler prospects than the global picture, hoping to contribute to it. Our programmes and activities aim to develop ground-level awareness, education and facilitation for the benefit of individuals, communities and institutions, to compensate fuelwood shortage with practical and efficient alternatives, and thereby relieve its socio-economic implications in the fast developing East African Region. Programmes' outline Our current programmes focus on the technology and application of ‘solar-thermal’ energy and ‘consumption-efficient alternatives’, aiming to develop further already tested technologies, implementation techniques and availability of resources: Facilitation of improved and alternative technologies, local manufacture and distribution. Implementation of applications for the domestic consumer, industrial initiatives and co-operatives. Co-operation at institutional and industrial level to generate environmentally reponsible development and empower education centres. Documentation as means to create a pool of knowledge available through internet and literature. |
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