About 15 percent of the world’s population lives without electricity. When it comes to meeting this segment of the global population’s needs, solar lights, water filters and cook stoves tend to get the most attention. But the team behind Evaptainers, an electricity-free mobile refrigeration unit, says refrigeration is just as critical to helping small farmers and the rural poor. Without refrigeration, up to 40 percent of produce grown in Africa spoils before it’s eaten—food waste…
Could this cooler help combat global hunger?
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