Recent Developments,
Key Innovations, and
Insightful Reports
Your One Stop Platform for Regular Sector Updates
Sector news
View By Category
Categories
- See all
- Agriculture
- Clean Cookstoves
- Clean Energy
- Climate Action
- Digital Technology
- Education
- Financial Services
- General
- Healthcare
- Hygiene
- Impact Investment
- Inclusive Value Chains
- Livelihoods
- Livestock
- Lower Income Consumers
- Marketing, Distribution and Sales for BoP
- Nutrition
- Sanitation
- Water
- Women Empowerment
September 19, 2013
Zambia: A new stove to eliminate use of charcoal
The rate of deforestation in Zambia is alarming. The country loses 650,000 to 700,000 acres of its 125,000 million acres of forest each year. One of the major drivers is charcoal production for usage as fuel in traditional stoves. A new start-up, Emerging Cooking Solutions is looking to tackle this […]
September 19, 2013
India: 25 years of experimentation result in a kiln developed to be a clean cookstove
V Jayaprakash always had a curiosity for kilns, and started out developing his first prototype from scratch about a quarter of a century back. Now, 25 years later, his smokeless kiln has garnered domestic and international acclaim. He is also the recipient of the National Innovation Foundation Award in 2012. […]
September 19, 2013
India: The Bharatlaxmi stove
Nandal village in Maharashtra is the beneficiary of the Bharatlaxmi stove, an invention of Indian scientist Priyadarshini Karve. She is the recipient of the 2002 Ashden Award, and is currently working with Pune-based Appropriate Rural Technologies Institute, helping institute her stove which reduces smoke by 80%, and fuel consumption by […]
September 19, 2013
Reducing soot and methane not as important for the environment as previously estimated
According to a new study by the US Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, cutting methane and soot (including replacing all wood and biomass burning stoves) is not as beneficial to the global warming reversal scenario as cutting the emission of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide. This is because […]
September 19, 2013
Another ailment linked to smoke from inefficient stoves: Cardiovascular disease risk
A number of possible cardiovascular problems like artery clogging plaques, artery thickness and high blood pressure could actually be a result of exposure to smoke from inefficient cookstoves using animal dung, firewood and crop residue, according to a new study from the Washington University. This conclusion was drawn after studying […]
September 19, 2013
Biomass, the forgotten clean option
India has a strong tradition of using home-produced biomass to solve a number of its energy needs, albeit inefficiently, and in a way harmful to the household health and overall environment. While the stress on wind and solar energy surged ahead in terms of government’s focus, biomass, with potential to […]
September 19, 2013
Why aren’t clean cookstoves taking off?
According to this article, only 14 out of every 100 cookstove projects actually deliver on their goals. The reason is that they do not factor in on the consumer’s intricate needs, which include cultural influences and daily usage patterns and comfort. Read the detailed analysis here.
September 19, 2013
Household fuels, low birth weight, and neonatal death in India: The separate impacts of biomass, kerosene, and coal
This study exposes the relationship between household fuels, low birth weight and neonatal death in India, when compared across impacts from biomass, kerosene and coal. Read the report here.
September 19, 2013
Impacts on household fuel consumption from biomass stove programs in India, Nepal, and Peru
This report helps us in estimating rural households’ everyday energy usage, region wise. This is a piece of data sparse and usually unavailable for companies directing their social enterprise developmental work towards the clean cookstove sector. This report looks at the energy consumption patterns of the three countries, post training […]
Get The Latest From The Social Sector In Your Inbox
Subscribe to our newsletter
View Our Publications
06 Key Lessons for informing policy decisions: Mainstreaming tribal-specific climate adaptive capacities in vulnerable coastal regions within National Action Plan on Climate Change
Download Full Report
Four Key Lessons for Policy Consideration: Scaling Climate Adaptive Capacities among Small and Marginal Farming Communities in the Sundarbans
Download Full Report
Five Key Lessons for Policy Consideration: Scaling Climate Action Programs for Landless Rural Communities in Semi-Arid Ganges-Brahmaputra Basin in South Asia
Download Full Report
View Blog Posts
GST 2.0 and Tax Cuts: Can They Make Growth Fairer and Greener?
India's latest GST reform, being termed as GST 2.0, is more than just slashing rates. By simplifying the tax structure, cutting levies on essentials, and supporting renewable infrastructure, it's open..
Reimagining Sports in CSR: From Tokenism to a Vehicle for Multiplying Impact
In 2023–24, Indian companies spent about ₹1,396 crore of their CSR budgets on sports — just 4% of the total ₹34,909 crore Indian corporates spent on CSR that year. Most of the rest went to edu..
Interactive SHG Map of India: 7.5 million Women Self Help Groups are spread across 27 States and 6 UTs in India
Under the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM), India has 7.5 million Women Self Help Groups (SHGs) spread across 27 states and 6 Union Territories. Each of these small, self-governed, and peer-co..