New from INFoCAT: supporting women and youth-led clean agritech innovations
30 April 2026
The INFoCAT project, part of Clean Energy for Development: A Call to Action (CEDCA), explores how clean energy-powered agritech innovations can support women and youth in agriculture across West Africa.
A new report, Promoting Women and Youth-Led Clean Agritech Innovations in Africa, brings together findings from the project’s work in Ghana, Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire.
The report highlights how clean energy technologies are being used to improve agricultural productivity, reduce labour and create new economic opportunities for young people and women. It also identifies key barriers, including access to finance, skills and policy support, which continue to limit the scale and sustainability of these innovations.
Alongside this, the project has supported a range of pilot initiatives and innovation challenges, helping to test and scale solutions such as solar-powered irrigation, processing and cooling technologies in smallholder farming contexts.
Find out more about the INFoCAT project here.
Smallholder farmer testing INFoCAT renewable energy powered groundnut pod plucker in Gomoa (Central Region, Ghana). Photo by UNU INRA.
Webinar: Clean Energy Transitions: A care economy lens
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Clean energy transitions: what changes when we put care at the centre? Join us for an engaging webinar exploring how clean energy transitions can do more than expand access to power: they can also reduce drudgery, shift how unpaid care work is recognised and shared, and open up new opportunities for women and young people in […]
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Smallholder farmer testing INFoCAT renewable energy powered groundnut pod plucker in Gomoa (Central Region, Ghana). Photo by UNU INRA.
Putting care at the centre of clean energy transitions
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Clean energy transitions are often discussed in terms of technology, finance and climate targets. But what changes when we put care at the centre? Across many low- and middle-income countries, women and girls carry a disproportionate share of unpaid care and domestic work. Cooking, collecting fuel and water, caring for others, processing food, and sustaining […]