Ethiopia’s energy sector faces critical challenges to meeting steadily increasing demand given limited infrastructure …, heavy reliance on hydroelectric power, and underdevelopment of alternative energy resources. The main aim of this paper is … to investigate an optimal least cost investment decisions for integrated energy source diversification. We seek to …

made in the face of rising global energy demand. Here a thoroughly validated dynamic econometric model (Eq 1) is used to … forecast global energy demand growth (International Energy Agency and BP), which is driven by an increase of the global … population (UN), energy use per person and real GDP (World Bank and Maddison). Even relatively conservative assumptions put a …

This study develops a scenario-based model to assess the current and future trends in energy demand in Africa and … associated greenhouse gas emissions. Future energy demand is forecast on the basis of socio-economic variables such as gross … domestic product, income per capita, population, and urbanization. The Long-range Energy Alternative Planning model is applied …

energy received little investment. The rate of electrification is still very low, triggering the use of other sources of … energy derived from firewood in rural areas. In addition, Burkina Faso has experienced land degradation in the North as a … increased risk of disasters in the agriculture, water and health sectors, among others. Due to this situation, some …

(including water, energy, food) coupled with the adverse impacts of variability and climate change threaten the population and … yearly, and about 80% of the population depending on rainfed agriculture, water scarcity and dryness constitute serious … constraints for the agriculture and livestock sectors. In addition, the unequal distribution of agricultural land and livestock …

This review report involves the analysis and synthesis of literatures on climate change, land use, energy, livelihoods … investments in Nigeria. Specifically, this report provides a systematic literature review on: 1) situation and trends in energy … and flooding across the country. The literature further revealed inadequate energy supply, distribution and low per capita …

has adopted new policies (infrastructure investments, liberalization of the groundnut sector and opening of the energy … to 2015. Future economic growth in Senegal can be significantly shaped by the energy sector regarding the recent oil and … Contribution for climate governance, the PRACAS (for agriculture and food security) and land-use policies highlights the main …

about 46%. Sudan's economy is based on agriculture, which contributes about one-third of the (GDP). Sudan's agriculture has … Nile and its tributaries, seasonal streams, underground water and surface water. Sources of energy are: biomass …; electricity (hydro and fossil fuels) and petroleum products, accounting for about 78,8% and 14%, respectively, of the total energy …

already pressuring the energy system and the environment and given all the social and economic benefits of cooling and cold … this will require a radically different approach to cooling and cold-chain provision that starts by asking what energy … renewable, thermal, and waste energy resources, synergies between processes and systems, and aggregation opportunities, rather …