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WFP Handbook on Safe Access to Firewood and Alternative Energy

From the World Food Programme, a guide to help address the multiple challenges linked with access to cooking fuel in…

Multiple-Household Fuel Use – a balanced choice between firewood, charcoal and LPG

The current energy discourse frequently differentiates among "modern" and "traditional" fuels, assuming that there is a linkage between the income…

Sustainability Assessment of Improved Household Cookstove Dissemination

The Development Assistance Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co- operation and Development (OECD DAC) defines sustainability as: 1. ……

Wood Energy – Renewable, profitable and modern

For millennia, wood served as the sole source of energy for humankind. During the course of industrialisation, wood energy was…

Biomass Energy Sector Planning Guide

Worldwide, an estimated 2.6 billion people – nearly 40 % of the global population – depend on traditional biomass for…

Productive Use of Thermal Energy: An Overview of Technology Options and Approaches for Promotion

According to the estimates of the International Energy Agency (IEA), 2.6 billion people around the world currently rely on traditional…

Bridging the Gender Divide: How Technology Can Advance Women Economically

CARE Bangladesh Rural Sales Program (RSP)

Commercial Woodfuel Production: Experience from Three Locally Controlled Wood Production Models

Biomass fuels and lung cancer

It is estimated that about 2.4 billion people around the world, or about 40% of the world’s population, depend on…