identifying high-priority impact areas for electricity service to farmlands in uganda through geospatial mapping英文.pdf

Journal of Agriculture and Food Research 5 (2021) 100172
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Identifying high-priority impact areas for electricity service to farmlands in
Uganda through geospatial mapping
Rebekah Shirley a,*, Yifei Liu b, Josephine Kakande c, Mark Kagarura c
a Strathmore Energy Research Center, Strathmore University, Nairobi, 00200, Kenya
b University of California, Berkeley, California, 94701, USA
c College of Engineering, Design, Art and Technology, Makerere University, Kampala, 7062, Uganda
ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT
Keywords: This article explores the food-energy nexus in sub–Saharan Africa by studying opportunities for improved
Electricity access agricultural productivity through electricity access. The study fillsan acknowledged data gap by using geospatial
Agriculture analysis to identify priority areas for serving on- and near-farm electricity demand, using maize and coffee
Productivity