Background Displacing the use of polluting and inefficient cookstoves in developing
countries is necessary to achieve the potential health and environmental benefits sought …

Background: In India, approximately 66% of households rely on dung or woody biomass as
fuels for cooking. These fuels are burned under inefficient conditions, leading to household …

Background Decades of intervention programs that replaced traditional biomass stoves with
cleaner-burning technologies have failed to meet the World Health Organization (WHO) …

More than 3 billion people use wood fuels for their daily cooking needs, with detrimental
health implications related to smoke emissions. Best practice global initiatives emphasize …

Current attention to improved cook stoves (ICS) focuses on the “triple benefits” they provide,
in improved health and time savings for households, in preservation of forests and …

Household air pollution from use of solid fuels is a major contributor to the national burden of
disease in India. Currently available models of advanced combustion biomass cook-stoves …

Household air pollution generated from solid fuel use for cooking is one of the leading risk
factors for ill-health globally. Deployment of advanced cookstoves to reduce emissions has …

Improving access to affordable and reliable energy services for cooking is essential for
developing countries in reducing adverse human health and environmental impacts hitherto …

Exposure to combustion byproducts from cooking is a major health concern globally.
Alternative stoves may reduce the burden of disease associated with exposure to household …

Laboratory studies suggest that improved cooking stoves can reduce indoor air pollution,
improve health, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries. We …