RENEWABLE energy and technology could go a long way towards improving food security.
Aside from conservation, innovation can also boost profitability and productivity of the Caribbean‘s agricultural sector.
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Backed by Inter-American Development Bank‘s (IDB) funding, at least three local companies, which have already set out to mix alternative energy and farming, will be better able to do just that.
The Family Garden, Caribbean ESCO Limited and Echos Consulting will get US$200,000 ($18 million) apiece, as well as technical and business development support, to implement or scale up their ideas.
They were awarded for their proposals, which embrace “innovative energy efficiency or renewable energy solutions that have local or regional benefits, provide jobs, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions”, under the IDB’s 2012 IDEAS Energy Innovation contest.
For the Harpers