1. 2.7 billion people worldwide rely on traditional uses of solid biomass fuels to meet their daily energy needs, an increase in 38 million over last year (IEA 2014). Traditional means of cooking pose acute and chronic health risks, introduce time burdens on women and children, contribute to...
  2. Because shacks in low-income communities are often very close to each other, when a fire breaks out in one home due to a spill from a cheap paraffin stove, the fire can spread quickly to numerous neighboring shacks. Tasos Callantzis, Ferderick Kruger, and Rudi Snyman formed Arivi to develop a...
  3. Abstract, 2012,The Harvard Environmental Economics Program It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions in the rural areas of developing countries through the adoption of improved cooking...
  4. Abstract, 2018,WHO, IEA, GACC, UNDP and World Bank This document is a part of a series of Policy Briefs being developed to support SDG7 review at the UN HighLevel Political Forum to be held in July 2018. The objective is to inform intergovernmental discussions by providing substantive inputs on...
  5. WFP is committed to helping people safely cook the food it delivers by addressing the various risks associated with cooking and access to energy. Cooking on open fires is one of the most serious public health and environmental problems in the world, withindoor air pollution being ranked by the...
  6. Abstract, 2017, World Development In India, efforts to design and diffuse improved cook-stoves began with nationalist organizations in the 1930s; after independence, these efforts were folded into sporadic state-level efforts and then became part of the NGO patchwork of development projects. Very...
  7. Creole Document on Making a Cookstove