Powering
Agriculture
Agriculture
This program, featured in the video, showcases teams using clean energy to solve farming challenges around the world.
What is Powering Agriculture?
Day of the week water supply arrives to villages like Nuja.
What is Wednesday?
This methodology quantifies the cumulative direct and indirect life-cycle energy inputs needed to provide a good or service.
What is energy analysis?
This was the main indicator used to measure inefficiency, defined as energy consumed per unit of GDP.
What is energy intensity?
The term used to describe the global shift from small-holder farming to large-scale commercial agriculture.
What is the agrarian transition?
One innovator in the video says they install solar irrigation pumps “all across” this country.
What is India?
Because supply is so limited, every household stores water in one of these two ways.
What are a tank on the roof or a cistern in the garden?
The paper separates food-system energy use into these two categories 1. one used on-site at a supply-chain node 2. one embodied in upstream inputs.
What are direct energy and indirect energy?
The researchers used this analytical method to ensure cross-country comparability by including both direct and indirect energy use.
What is an input-output life-cycle assessment (LCA)?
Since 2000, around 90 million hectares of land—roughly the size of this South American country—have been acquired globally through LSLAs.
What is Venezuela?
"Future Pumps" in Kenya, use the sun to lift water for crops, reducing reliance on diesel. Name the technology.
What are solar-powered irrigation pumps?
A German engineer is working to improve water resource management in Jordan by installing new, more efficient pumps
Who is Bassem Hayek?
The weighted-average distance food travels, is generally considered a trivial factor in overall food system energy use in industrialized countries.
What are food miles?
One policy approach to encourage energy-efficient diets and consumption is this type of economic measure, which raises prices on high-impact foods.
What is a tax or carbon tax on energy-intensive products?
According to the study, 80% of LSLA lands were previously characterized by this type of agriculture, using fewer than 30 kg of nitrogen fertilizer per hectare.
What is low-input agriculture?
By bringing solar pumping to smallholders, the innovators are tackling this core bottleneck in agriculture: dependable, affordable access to what for on-farm operations?
What is energy (power)?
The new pumps being installed in places like Madaba offer two major benefits besides making the water supply more reliable. One benefit is related to energy use, and the other to the environment.
What are:
1. They use less electricity (saving energy and money)
2. They reduce CO2 emissions (helping the environment)?
Fixed via the Haber–Bosch process and roughly ten times more energy-intensive to produce than phosphorus or potassium fertilizers, this input is cited as the most energy-demanding aspect of modern intensive agriculture.
What is nitrogen fertilizer?
This key concept describes the trend where rising total energy use occurs alongside decreasing energy intensity, indicating technological progress.
What is the decoupling of energy consumption and energy efficiency?
LSLAs often occur on lands with low agricultural productivity and large yield gaps, indicating that investors aim to do this.
What is intensify agricultural production?