Niassa biogas project

Solution complète

Nano 500 Biogas plant

Biotech INDIA

We are testing biotech nano 500 biodigesters in conservation zones to prevent people from systematically using trees and plants in protected areas to produce energy for cooking and other necessities. This method prevent them from using fuels that are harmful to health and the environment within the protected areas.

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Contexte

Challenges addressed

Land and Forest degradation

Loss of Biodiversity

Wildfires

Ecosystem loss

Infrastructure development

Lack of access to long-term funding

Lack of alternative income opportunities

Changes in socio-cultural context

Lack of technical capacity

Lack of public and decision maker’s awareness

Poor monitoring and enforcement

Lack of infrastructure

Poor governance and participation

Lack of food security

The biggest logistical challenge is the distance and access to the remote conservation areas. Also the financial resources for importing bio digesters as well as necessary accessories for the use of gas in the kitchen and food preservation.

Scale of implementation

Local

National

Ecosystems

Agroforestry

Tropical evergreen forest

Thème

Ecosystem services

Restoration

Food security

Health and human wellbeing

Sustainable livelihoods

Indigenous people

Fire management

Protected and conserved areas management planning

Pollution

Renewable energies

Waste management

Emplacement

Niassa, Mozambique

East and South Africa

Traiter

Summary of the process

Combining the use of biogas technology and solar energy, the community residing in the Niassa reserve will not only be able to improve their quality of life but also their income by not buying kerosene, candles, and batteries. In this way, wasting hours searching for firewood is avoided.

Solar energy gives access to lighting and electricity to develop other activities, rather then throwing toxic waste in nature, such as used batteries.

Building Blocks

Niassa biogas project

Build partnership to implement projects in biogas in niassa reserve and other reserves in Mozambique

Enabling factors

Finance

Logistic

Capacity building

Lesson learned

Sustainable development

Solar lightning kits

Combines solar solution to provide ligth and access to power and charge phones

Enabling factors

Solar kits

Financial resources

Logistics

Lesson learned

Improve life in rural commnities

Impacts

Improving people's lives and their health;

To allow the use of fertilizers and natural fertilizers for food production in home gardens in order to encourage people to stop looking at the reserve animals as the only source of food;

To protect protected species of trees that undergo indiscriminate felling for the charcoal and woodfuels.

Beneficiaries

Community residing in the special reserve of Niassa

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 2 – Zero hunger

SDG 3 – Good health and well-being

SDG 5 – Gender equality

SDG 6 – Clean water and sanitation

SDG 7 – Affordable and clean energy

SDG 9 – Industry, innovation and infrastructure

SDG 10 – Reduced inequalities

SDG 11 – Sustainable cities and communities

SDG 12 – Responsible consumption and production

SDG 13 – Climate action

SDG 15 – Life on land

Story

women caring firewood

In Mozambique in rural areas inside or outside conservation areas, looking for firewood for cooking in the forest and women's and children's work, this consumes many hours of the day exposing these groups to dangers within the areas outside protection. They are also exposed to the risk of coming across ferocious animals in the forest.