Energy for poverty reduction
- Energy for poverty reduction Energy is the spark that can help lift people out of poverty
- The killer in the kitchen The smoke from burning solid fuels turns kitchens into death traps. But there is a solution.
- Energy poverty - the hidden energy crisis The hidden crisis of energy poverty condemns billions of people to live in absolute poverty
A life without energy condemns people to a life of poverty. One quarter of the world’s population are forced to live without energy - and lives are devastated as ill health and poor education take their toll.
Practical Action provides practical power: renewable, locally-sourced sustainable energy which lifts people out of poverty.
Energy blogs
The importance of energy
During my research with the PISCES programme in Kenya I investigated the benefits of biofuels for...
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Sustainability or quick fix?
Temporary restrictions to energy supply, nationally or internationally are a frequent occurrence....
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Poor Peoples Energy Outlook - making friends and influencing people
Earlier in the week I went to the launch of the Poor Peoples Energy Outlook. The report’s produce...
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Energy solutions
Practical Action aims to increase poor people's access to energy, through improving the efficiency of stoves, and through small-scale, low-cost, off-grid electricity supply.
We work closely with communities to help them develop technical improvements, such as low cost cooking stoves to improve upon the traditional three-sone cooking fires, and to reduce indoor air pollution by developing smoke hoods.
