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Nigeria’s agricultural sector faces enormous challenges, including a heavy reliance on rain-fed agriculture. According to a Federal Government report, only 5.4% of Nigeria’s agricultural land is currently irrigated. Many farmers rely primarily on rain-fed farming, which has record-low productivity year after year. CESEL, a Nigerian renewable energy social enterprise, piloted a rent-to-own cluster irrigation facility, the Irri-Go model, as part of the Sustainable Rice Intensification (SRI) pilot implemented by Propcom+. Several farming clusters received the irrigation infrastructure through the Irri-Go rent-to-own model facilitated by CESEL.