#SolarFarming #Sustainability #HumanRights #Agriculture #Giftink
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/climate/alaska-solar-farm-food.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vU8.kq3s.hVYd2kzcZkMr&smid=url-share
"By using #solar panels, farmers can simultaneously protect their plants, save #water and lower their energy bills.
Some plants actually produced more with less water. Cowpea beans, for example – also known as black-eyed peas – had a higher crop yield when grown in the shade of solar panels. Full sun required twice as much water, it turned out."
https://azmirror.com/briefs/arizona-farmers-turn-to-solar-panels-to-shade-crops-save-water-and-generate-power/
#agrivoltaics #SolarFarming
For 31 straight days last summer, temperatures in Phoenix hit or topped 110 degrees, the longest such streak ever. That searing Arizona heat dehydrates crops and evaporates water the state needs to conserve
A 540-megawatt (MW) hybrid floating solar–floating wind farm is going to be developed off Italy’s southern coast, in the Ionian Sea.