Social marketing in India | Nigeria: Alliance to Deliver 10 Million | IAP Research and Implementation Needs | Fuelling sawdust stoves with jatropha | Proceedings of the Clean Cooking Forum 2013
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Social marketing in India: Lessons learned from efforts to foster demand for cleaner cookstoves
MAY 2, 2013 · 0 COMMENTS
Social marketing in India: Lessons learned from efforts to foster demand for cleaner cookstoves, 2013.
Shell Foundation
Since 2002, SF has been working to develop a market for more efficient, ‘improved cookstoves’ (ICS) that significantly reduce fuel use, emissions and cooking time for people who rely on biomass fuels. In 2007, we formed a long-term partnership with Envirofit
International, a social enterprise based in the US, and together we
began to develop a business-based model to design, produce and sell a range of clean cookstoves that are affordable, durable and desirable.
Nigeria: Alliance to Deliver 10 Million Clean Cook Stoves to Nigerians By 2020
MAY 2, 2013 · 0 COMMENTS
Nigeria: Alliance to Deliver 10 Million Clean Cook Stoves to Nigerians By 2020 | Source: Daily Trust, May 2, 2013 |
The Nigerian Alliance for Clean CookStoves has promised to deliver 10 million stoves to Nigerian homes by 2020 as part of efforts to halt the rising mortality associated with the use of fire wood.
Mr Ewah Eleri, Coordinator, Nigerian Alliance for Clean CookStoves said that the need for the clean stove had become urgent as Nigeria account for 100,000 deaths annually out of the 2million death recorded globally.
“In Nigeria, available statistics shows that over 20 million people use fire wood and this account for 11 per cent of families food expenditure and result in the loss of 3 per cent of the nation’s forest reserve,” he said at a stakeholders meeting on the validation of the clean stove project.
Indoor Air Pollution in Developing Countries: Research and Implementation Needs
MAY 2, 2013 · 0 COMMENTS
Jnl APHA, Feb 2013
Indoor Air Pollution in Developing Countries: Research and Implementation Needs for Improvements in Global Public Health
Elliott T. Gall, MSE, Ellison M. Carter, MSE, C. Matt Earnest, MSE, and Brent Stephens, PhD
Exposure to indoor air pollution (IAP) from the burning of solid fuels for cooking, heating, and lighting accounts for a significant portion of the global burden of death and disease, and disproportionately affects women and children in developing regions. Clean cookstove campaigns recently received more attention and investment, but their successes might hinge on greater integration of the public health community with a variety of other disciplines.
To help guide public health research in alleviating this important global environmental health burden, we synthesized previous research on IAP in developing countries, summarized successes and challenges of previous cookstove implementation programs, and provided key research and implementation needs from structured discussions at a recent symposium.
Fuelling sawdust stoves with jatropha fruit coats
MAY 2, 2013 · 0 COMMENTS
Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, Volume 2, June 2013, Pages 12–18
Fuelling sawdust stoves with jatropha fruit coats
Lars Kåre Grimsby, et al.
Jatropha fruit coats constitute a substantial byproduct in the jatropha harvest. Due to its texture the fruit coat is unsuitable as fuel in firewood stoves but could be applicable in sawdust stoves. Jatropha fruit coats were tested as fuel in a sawdust stove with a controlled water boiling test and among households that were involved in jatropha harvesting. Five kilograms jatropha seeds leave 4 kg fruit coats; enough to fill three sawdust stoves. The stove’s high firepower (3.1 kW) lasted less than an hour making it unsuitable for hard-boiled food. The stove did cook softer foods and was usable in combination with the three stone fire.
Emissions were 20 mg m−3 CO and 145 μm m−3 PM10 24-h mean. CO-levels were below WHO recommendations, PM10 levels above. Jatropha fruits are harvestable in large quantities only during seasons. This, together with a difficult market for jatropha seeds may limit availability of fruit coats. Although jatropha fruit coats in sawdust stove did not replace the three stone fire completely, the sawdust stove could complement other stoves in a multiple fuel use regime in areas where jatropha fruit coats are available in abundance and for free.
Proceedings of the Clean Cooking Forum 2013
APRIL 30, 2013 · 0 COMMENTS
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