The STAP paper on agrivoltaics (AV) provides background information on an emerging innovative and effective solution for addressing issues of land competition between food and energy. AV is the combining of solar PV systems with agricultural production by using the same area of land for producing solar energy and agricultural products, thereby creating synergies between renewable energy and agricultural production. The background paper presents the benefits of implementing AV systems, the possible drawbacks, the technical considerations, barriers, and challenges to implementation especially in the global south, and the needed enablers for successful adoption and scale up. The paper also maps AV systems benefits against GEF work areas to highlight how it can contribute to achieving objectives across GEF focal areas and provide advice on what the GEF could do to support the implementation and scale of AV systems in the countries it supports.
The Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel provides independent advice to the Global Environment Facility