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Recent Developments, <br /> Key Innovations, and <br /> Insightful Reports

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Insightful Reports

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Delivery Models for Decentralized Rural Electrification: Case studies in Nepal, Peru and Kenya

About 1.3 billion people in the world still lack access to electricity, of which 95 per cent live in SSA (sub-Saharan Africa) or developing Asia, and 84 per cent in rural areas. This report by the International Institute for Environment and Development analyses the delivery models which work best in […]

January 28, 2013

The Greenway Smart Stove

The Greenway Smart Stove is a stove made by Greenway Grameen Infra, an India-based start-up begun by student entrepreneurs. They have been the recipients of US$50,000 at the annual Intel Challenge at UC Berkeley. The team claims that their stove performs better than an electric fan stove, and can run […]

January 28, 2013

The Himalayan Stove Project: How cookstoves can change the world

According to founder of the Himalayan Stove Project, George Basch, the initiative was borne out of his in depth understanding of the environmental and socio-economic issues of the region. Their stoves, which implement superior designs, and use only 20 per cent of wood to cook the same as traditional cooking, […]

January 28, 2013

Meningitis link brings urgency to clean cookstove movement

According to a new study by Cheryl Dybas of the National Science Foundation (NSF), there is another addition to the list of diseases caused and catalysed by indoor air pollution caused by inefficient cookstoves – meningitis. Read more here.

January 28, 2013

Kenyan stoves don’t significantly reduce pollution

A new study published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene found that ceramic cookstoves used in rural Kenyan households were having no significant impacts on the rates of pneumonia in children. Compared to 3 stone pits usually used, these ceramic stoves were found to have no significant […]

January 28, 2013

India: Deaths from respiratory illnesses on the rise

According to the Statistical Handbook of India, 2013, some 2,429 people died owing to respiratory diseases in 2011, a number far greater than that of deaths caused by water borne diseases and Japanese encephalitis. According to the country’s government, 26.3 million suffer from acute respiratory diseases, caused by indoor […]

January 28, 2013

Use of biomass fuels in households within Limpopo province of South Africa and its association with asthma

This cross sectional study aims to find an association between the incidence of asthma and use of biomass fuel among 742 school children aged between 13 and 14. The prevalence of asthma among the exposed group was found to be 33 per cent. Read the report here.

January 28, 2013

Cost & benefit analysis of improved cooking stoves in Bangladesh

Bangladesh has proven to be one of the toughest nuts to crack in terms of propagating use of clean cookstoves. This study conducted in the Tangail district in Bangladesh presents the results of the economic evaluation of improved cookstove which were disseminated in the region. Read the report here.

January 28, 2013

Kenya: Dutch potato project to improve food security

In Kenya, potatoes are the second most important food crop, coming after maize. In view of this, current low production of the crop is unfortunate, in terms of the employment generation opportunities the farmers in the country are missing out on. Hence, Kenya is all set to benefit from a […]