The initial part of the Taighde Éireann (Research Ireland) Innovator Prize, funded by Irish Aid, is to organize a Workshop for the team who will go on to prepare an application for the Concept and Seed phases of the SFI/Irish Aid SDG Challenge. The challenge is to address SDG 2, No Hunger, by using wind and solar energy to assist agriculture in west Tanzania. The initial ideas discussed using renewable energy for irrigation and agroprocessing. The workshop took place on 2nd Sept in Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), Edward Moringe Campus Morogoro Tanzania. Project lead, Peter Deeney and Co-Lead Prof. Jeremia Makindara, met academics from SUA. A subsequent meeting took place on 4th Sept in SUA Mizengo Pinda Campus, Katavi, Tanzania where they met local stakeholders. Slides
Workshop with academics from Sokoine University of Technology at the main campus in Morogoro. The academics included experts in nutrition, irrigation engineering, technology transfer, agriculture, food science and agro processing, wildlife and tourism,.
Stakeholders meeting in the Mizengo Pinda Campus of SUA in Katavi province. Stakeholders included and engineer, local planners, environmentalists, community development, agriculture and ward executive officers.
This workshop was conducted with the financial support of Research Ireland (formerly Science Foundation Ireland) and the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) under the SFI Future Innovator Prize – Workshop Grant 24/FIP/WG/3632