Keeling Curve

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Project Summary / Description:

I come from a family of poultry farmers spanning several generations. My parents passed on this passion for poultry farming to me from childhood. Growing up, I observed the hardship my father had when his broiler flock reached maturity and had to be sold as soon as possible. Once they are slaughtered, they must be sold within a certain period of time or they will rot. Many farmers were experiencing this problem. So how to overcome this major problem in a remote region like ours where access to electricity remains a daily headache? This is how I came up with the idea of setting up Dikya Group in 2019, which aims to help "small and large breeders" to increase their income by preventing their meat products from rotting and being ready for the market. This enterprise contributes to ensuring the availability of chicken meat in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Replaces/avoids GHGs (e.g., projects that replace sources of GHGs, such as the burning of fossil fuels for electricity, heat, transport, or other energy uses), Reduces GHGs (e.g., projects that reduce sources of GHGs, such as through efficiency or other changes in consumption)

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Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. Its effects vary across regions, generations, age, social classes, income groups, and gender. Based on the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), it is clear that those populations that are already the most vulnerable and marginalized will be the most affected. It is likely that the poor, primarily in developing countries, will be disproportionately affected and thus have the greatest need for adaptation strategies to cope with climate change


Of the 1.3 billion people living in poverty, 70% are women. In urban areas, 40% of the poorest households are headed by women. While women play a key role in global food production (50-80%), they hold less than 10% of the land for agriculture and livestock.

Dikya Group is helping these women in the poultry sector in Africa to increase their income from raising chickens by preventing the rotting of their market-ready meat products. Women represent a large percentage of poor communities that depend on local natural resources for their livelihoods, especially in rural areas where they bear the burden of family responsibilities such as water supply and fuel collection for cooking and heating, as well as food security.

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Mission Statement:

Dikya Group develops solar-powered cold stores or refrigerated warehouses, totally autonomous from the electrical grid, operating free of charge day and night. Our refrigerated stores, whose investment cost is very low, are deployed in regions poorly served by electricity in the Democratic Republic of Congo and will allow to preserve and safeguard chicken meat, in a sustainable, ecological way in any sunny place at 3 degrees Celsius guaranteed.

Our innovation is to adapt this efficient process in Africa and totally independent from the electrical grid using only renewable, abundant and free solar energy. 
The interest of this process is that it is totally non-polluting and ecological, working for free without any risk of breakdown, requiring no maintenance or upkeep, can be installed in any sunny place even the most remote or on a beach, with a life span of at least 15 years.