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Environmental Venture Projects (EVP) provide seed funding to Stanford faculty for interdisciplinary research leading to sustainable solutions to global environmental challenges. Each year, the Woods Institute awards EVP grants that address a wide range of sustainability issues, from endangered species in California to clean water in Africa. Click here for an archive of Environmental Venture Projects.

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Solar Water Delivery

In the driest regions of Africa, water is often hauled long distances by hand.

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Stanford researcher Jennifer Burney discusses the EVP solar project in Benin.

During the dry season, women and young girls frequently haul water for several hours each day in an attempt to hand-water small plots of vegetables. The Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF) has a better idea: use eco-friendly solar power to pump freshwater to villages. But is solar sustainable in remote rural areas, and will it allow farming to flourish while remaining carbon neutral?To find out, the Woods Institute awarded an EVP grant to Stanford's Food Security and the Environment (FSE) program. For more information visit: The Kalalé Solar Electrification Project.

Project Title:
An alternative development model? Assessing solar electrification for income generation in rural Benin

EVP Year: 2007

Focal Area: Energy & Climate

Team Members:

Rosamond Naylor, Woods and Freeman Spogli institutes

Marshall Burke, Woods and Freeman Spogli institutes (staff)

Jennifer Burney, Physics

Ted Miguel, University of California - Berkeley

Jeremy Weinstein, Political Science