Project overview

Partners with Sun aim to implement their solar convection ovens to bakeries throughout Lebanon, potentially providing 10,000 families a day with affordable food.

Challenge

In the last decade alone, 1.7 billion people have faced climate-related disasters, a staggering figure that highlights the increasingly direct link between climate change and food insecurity. These climate-induced crises - ranging from prolonged droughts and floods to cyclones and wildfires - disrupt local economies, destroy agricultural infrastructure and decimate food supplies.

Technology is needed to strengthen food value chains and make it more adaptive to disruptions caused by climate change to provide uninterrupted aid to the most in need.

 Julio Dominguez clears parts of the flood to reach his home by canoe in Ecuador. Photo: © WFP/Gonzalo Ruiz

 

Solution

Partners with Sun (PwS) offers disruptive clean‑energy solutions through a solar convection oven that replaces fuel‑dependent systems with a sustainable, off‑grid model powered by solar energy and supported by hydrogen backup technology. By integrating multiple renewable energy sources into a coordinated system that provides both heat and power, PwS reduces fossil‑fuel dependency, lowers operational costs, and maintains high efficiency for bakeries. This innovation ensures uninterrupted food production in remote areas, strengthens resilience to climate, social, and economic shocks, and delivers long‑term environmental and socioeconomic benefits across the food value chain.

 

Partners with Sun Solar Convection Oven
Sprint goal

PwS aims to implement their patented innovation with bakeries in Lebanon. For every 10 ovens installed, the venture has the potential to provide affordable meals to 10,000 families daily, create 100 new jobs and prevent 200 tons of CO2 emissions.

Meet the team

Toufic Hamdan
Founder
Last updated: 19/04/2026