Introduction: Approximately three billion people in Asia, Africa, and the Americas cook with
biomass, cleaner cooking technologies with the potential to reduce household air pollution …

In households that rely on biomass for a large percentage of their energy needs, adoption of
improved biomass stoves can result in significant reduction of indoor air pollutants and …

Many households in low-and middle-income countries cook with inefficient biomass-burning
stoves, which cause high levels of household air pollution and threaten long-term health …

Little quantitative monitoring and evaluation of the impacts of improved stoves have been
performed in Mexico. Grupo Interdisciplinario de Tecnología Rural Apropiada (GIRA) has …

The adoption of innovations in rural areas depends, among many different factors, on the
way development workers approach a community. Through a qualitative research …

90% of people residing in rural areas of less-developed countries rely on coal and biomass
fuels for heating and cooking, leading to high exposures to the products of incomplete …

Household air pollution contributes to the premature death of more than 4 million people
annually. Improved cookstoves are one technological intervention that can potentially …

The benefits of improved biomass cookstoves (ICS) depends on their adoption and
sustained use. Few studies have documented if and how they are used more than five years …

Over 80% of rural residents in the developing world utilize biomass as their principal fuel,
with serious consequences for their health, climate change, household economics and …

Objective The aim of this study was to analyze the factors enabling/limiting the use of
improved cookstoves among rural fuel wood users from one mestizo and two indigenous …