This project aims to implement a suite of three technologies: gasification-fuelled cookstoves, tubular plug-flow biodigesters and gasification-fuelled coffee dryers. Using a participative process, six of these demonstration suites will be implemented in five departments of Colombia: Santander (2), Meta, Antioquia, Cauca and Caldas.
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Colombia's coffee-growing region is the world's third most productive, providing a livelihood for over 560,000 families. By taking advantage of the organic waste generated by coffee cultivation and common practices of diversified production, biomass-fuelled renewable energy (RE) technologies offer rural families the chance to improve their quality of life and economic productivity while implementing sustainable and integrated practices.
This project aims to implement a suite of three technologies: gasification-fuelled cookstoves, tubular plug-flow biodigesters and gasification-fuelled coffee dryers. Using a participative process, six of these demonstration suites will be implemented in five departments of Colombia: Santander (2), Meta, Antioquia, Cauca and Caldas.
The specific objectives of the project are:
- To conduct a detailed baseline study on partner organisations, monitoring parameters, performance assessment and potential users
- To develop local management models for the proposed technologies
- To construct and implement the cookstoves, biodigestion systems and coffee dryers, and to undertake hands-on training for operators
- To offer experience exchanges between the different project sites, to monitor and evaluate project experiences and to analyse socio-economic and environmental impacts
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