Stoves and Ovens
Improved stoves interlink many areas of development and wellbeing. Not only in reduction in fuel but to environmental issues relating to indoor air pollution to deforestation and carbon dioxide emissions.
General Resources
Appropriate Household Energy Technology Development
Although support materials exist in the form of technical information on various household energy technologies,...
Chimney Stoves and Smoke Hoods
Nearly half the world cooks on three-stone fires or basic stoves causing indoor air pollution. This brief looks at...
Chimney Stoves and Smoke Hoods - Stovu Zenye Dohani Na Vifuniko Vya Moshi
Nearly half the world cooks on three-stone fires or basic stoves causing indoor air pollution. This brief looks...
How to Build, Use and Maintain a Better Bonfire Kiln
The Better Bonfire Kiln is a simple kiln primarily designed for small scale stove producers, developed in Kenya.
How to Make an Upesi Stove
The Upesi stove is a ceramic stove designed for rural areas of Kenya. It uses wood as its fuel source.
How to Make Sri Lanka's Anagi II Stove
A step-by-step guide to making a two pot ceramic stove.
Monitoring Indoor Air Pollution
Smoke from cooking with wood, dung and crop residues is the fourth greatest risk for death and disease in the...
Mud Stoves in East Africa
Mud stoves play an important role in improving the efficiency of household energy use in East Africa.
Practical Tips for Potters Making Improved Cooking Stoves
This manual looks at the issues and difficulties in making high quality clay stoves.
Solar Cooking and Health
Solar cookers are devices that use the energy of solar radiation to cook food. In the rural areas of most developing...
Stoves for Institutional Kitchens
Institutional stoves are used where larger amounts of food need to be cooked. Typical examples are schools,...
Stoves for Rice Husk and Other Fine Residues
These materials have often been regarded as waste but it is possible to use fine biomass residues as a fuel source....
The Mubkher Stove
This is a ceramic stove that uses charcoal as its fuel source. Designed for use in Sudan.
Publications
The Stove Project Manual
Wood Stove Dissemination
Modern Stoves for All
Kenya Ceramic Jiko
Clay Testing
Improved Wood Waste and Charcoal Burning Stoves
Smoke - the Killer in the Kitchen
Video
Anagi Stove
Smoke, health and household energy
This publication describes a research project done by Practical Action (under its former name of ITDG) in three very different communities. Practical Action has developed a framework to strengthen those living in poverty to work together, participating in all levels of the decision making process and leading to a sound redistribution and management of resources to reduce indoor air pollution. The project worked with communities to identify, install and monitor sustainable technologies to alleviate smoke.
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Annexes to the publication:
Volume 2: Researching pathways to scaling up sustainable and effective kitchen smoke alleviation
Practical Action is a core member of the Household Energy Development Organizations Network (HEDON), set to act as a focal point for those working in the field in household energy. It aims to promote links among the diverse organizations working in this field, including NGOs, government agencies, and consultancies. www.hedon.info
Practical Action Consulting is part of the Policy Innovation Systems for Clean Energy Security (PISCES)project http://www.pisces.or.ke aims to provide policy makers with new information and approaches to using bioenergy to improve energy access and livelihoods in poor communities.
Scale-Up and Commercialisation of Improved Cookstoves in Sri Lanka: Lessons Learnt from the Anagi Experience prepared for PISCES by Practical Action Consulting. The commercialisation of improved cook stoves in Sri Lanka and specifically that of the widely used Anagi stove, was the outcome of a series of projects over three decades.
