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January 7, 2013
State of the Food Insecurity in the World 2012
This report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization records the levels of undernourishment across the world based on a new and improved testing methodology. This survey shows that efforts to reduce chronic hunger in the last 20 years have been successful, yet the number of people suffering from chronic […]
January 7, 2013
Barefoot and Kiva join forces
Barefoot Power, the award winning social enterprise and Kiva, the online microcredit platform have now joined forces to make clean energy options more easily available throughout underserved communities in the developing world. Read more here.
January 7, 2013
Understanding the benefits of biogas
Means of small biogas digesters which have been instrumental in providing power in a number of Asian countries can be leveraged to provide power to a number of underserved households in South Africa as well. Read more here.
January 7, 2013
Improved cookstoves for Bangladesh, by BCSIR and IFRD
This post and report talk about how Bangladeshi cookstoves are even worse in terms of efficiency and polluting gases and solids production than the regular inefficient cookstoves. In view of this, Bangladesh Council for Science and Industrial Research (BCSIR) and Institute of Fuel Research and Development (IFRD) have developed improved […]
January 7, 2013
Focus on household air pollution and the global burden of disease
This post enlists all the essential details to take away from the recent Lancet study which claims that as many as 4 million people die annually of indoor air pollution all over the world. Read more and watch the video here.
January 7, 2013
Bangladesh – Low demand for non-traditional cookstoves, 2012
This report delves into finding evidence that Bangladeshi rural women do not look at combusting biomass in unclean cookstoves and the resulting indoor air pollution as a significant health hazard. Read the report here.
January 7, 2013
The Enabling Environment: Global Guidelines and National Policies for Indoor Air Quality
Most national cookstove concerns have been about energy usage and environment, with modest attention to health impacts of unclean cooking within the house. This paper by RTI International gives key policy and research recommendations with respect to the health aspect of unclean cooking. Read the report here.
January 7, 2013
Women’s perceptions on the integration of solar powered home systems and biogas and its potential to improve gender disparities in energy
This paper by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research looks into women’s perceptions on the feasibility of integrating use of biogas with solar home systems in the rural mix of energy, for remote South Africa where stretching energy lines over long distances does not make sense. Read the report […]
January 7, 2013
Sustainable Energy for all? Linking poor communities to modern energy services
This paper by the International Institute of Environment and Development (IIED) explores energy services that are benefiting the poor, and also recognizes the four basic building blocks – implementation, enabling environment, socio-cultural context, and decision making structures. Read the report here.
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