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

A worker carries a basket of white potatoes at a farm. Kisilu’s Solar Freeze technology lets farmers pay a small daily fee to put their crops into cold storage until prices rise, boosting their incomes and cutting food waste, an important contributor to global warming. — Bloomberg

GLASGOW: Growing up under the care of his grandmother in rural eastern Kenya, Dysmus Kisilu saw how hard farmers worked – and, often, how little they earned.

Even today, when the potato harvest comes in each year, a 90-kilogramme sack sells for just 2,000 Kenyan shillings (RM74) in the local market, as supplies soar, he said.