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Addressing food insecurity in arid regions with an open-source evaporative cooling chamber design

A team from MIT D-Lab and Kenyan community partner Solar Freeze celebrate the completion of the first solar-powered iteration of the forced-air evaporative cooling chamber. Using one-quarter of the energy of refrigerated cold rooms and at half the cost to build, the cooling chamber helps smallhold farmers in arid regions preserve and store freshly harvested produce. Credits: Photo courtesy of MIT D-Lab.

News | Jul 19, 2023 | Nancy Adams | MIT D-Lab

MIT News

Addressing food insecurity in arid regions with an open-source evaporative cooling chamber design

Webinar: Open-Source Fruit and Vegetable Cooling Chamber

Webinar: Open-Source Fruit and Vegetable Cooling Chamber

Video | May 17, 2023 | Eric Verploegen

MIT D-Lab

Webinar: Open-Source Fruit and Vegetable Cooling Chamber

Reducing Household Food Waste and Improving Nutrition with Simple Technologies

Clay pot-in-dish cooler, and impacts seen by users on food waste and nutrition. Images: Courtesy MIT D-Lab

Blog | Sep 29, 2022 | Eric Verploegen

Agrilinks

Reducing Household Food Waste and Improving Nutrition with Simple Technologies

Clay Pot Cooler Training in Mali: Outcomes & Impacts

Publication | Oct 17, 2022 | Laura Mogannam, Fatimata Cissé, Kola Sidiki Cissé, Kukom Edoh Ognakossan, and Eric Verploegen

Clay Pot Cooler Training in Mali: Outcomes & Impacts

Bringing a forced-air evaporative cooling chamber to life in Kenya

Image shows the finished chamber (solar panel and water tank shown!) along with members of the team that worked on bringing the chamber to reality. Blog author Gaby is center rear. Photo: Courtesy MIT D-Lab

Blog | Aug 19, 2022 | Gaby Alvarez Perez '22

MIT D-Lab

Bringing a forced-air evaporative cooling chamber to life in Kenya

Evaporative Cooling for Fruit and Vegetable Preservation in Turkana

This is our second experimental setup to test different structures and configurations for the cooler. All of the designs use locally available materials so that people could make the cooler themselves. Photo: MIT D-Lab/Christin Tang

Blog | Jul 15, 2022 | Ava Dijstelbloem and Christine Tang

MIT D-Lab

Evaporative Cooling for Fruit and Vegetable Preservation in Turkana

Recipient of the 2022 J-WAFS Grant for Transforming Animal Agriculture Systems announced: A safe, off-grid chicken brooder for smallholder poultry farmers in developing countries.

News | Jun 24, 2022 | Summer Weidman | J-WAFS

Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab

Recipient of the 2022 J-WAFS Grant for Transforming Animal Agriculture Systems announced: A safe, off-grid chicken brooder for smallholder poultry farmers in developing countries.

Designing the built environment through a service lens

MIT senior Carene Umubyeyi hopes to use the knowledge she has gained during her time at MIT to expand and educate on sustainable structural design and building methods in her home country of Rwanda and elsewhere in Africa. Credits: Photo: Kathleen Briana

News | Feb 23, 2022 | Stephanie Martinovich | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

MIT News

Designing the built environment through a service lens

Turning heat to cooling, Kenyan inventor cuts food waste - and adds jobs and income

Kenyan D-Lab community partner Dysmus Kisilu talks about his venture Solar Freeze

News | Nov 09, 2021 | Laurie Goering

Reuters

Turning heat to cooling, Kenyan inventor cuts food waste - and adds jobs and income

D-Lab UROP Max Burns wins 2021 GHTC Student Poster Contest

Investigating Clay Pot Coolers for Produce Preservation in Developing Nations

Video | Oct 29, 2021 | Max Burns

MIT D-Lab

D-Lab UROP Max Burns wins 2021 GHTC Student Poster Contest