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Resilient clean cooking: Maintaining household clean cooking in Ecuador during the COVID-19 pandemic. [PDF]

Energy Sustain Dev, 2023
Decades of government subsidies for LPG and electricity have facilitated near-universal clean cooking access and use in Ecuador, placing the nation ahead of most other peer low- and middle-income countries. The widespread socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic has threatened the resilience of clean cooking systems globally, including by ...
Valarezo A, Dávila L, Bejarano ML, Nolivos I, Molina E, Schlesinger SB, Gould CF, Jack DW.   +7 more
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Explaining the rise of economic and rural-urban inequality in clean cooking fuel use in Tanzania [PDF]

Heliyon
Despite the high rate of economic growth and electrification in the last two decades in Tanzania, only 6.9 % of the nation's households have access to clean cooking fuel technology which is concentrated among the rich urban households.
Magashi Joseph Ntegwa, Lulu Silas Olan’g   +1 more
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Implementation Science to Accelerate Clean Cooking for Public Health. [PDF]

Environ Health Perspect, 2017
Clean cooking has emerged as a major concern for global health and development because of the enormous burden of disease caused by traditional cookstoves and fires.
Rosenthal J, Balakrishnan K, Bruce N, Chambers D, Graham J, Jack D, Kline L, Masera O, Mehta S, Mercado IR, Neta G, Pattanayak S, Puzzolo E, Petach H, Punturieri A, Rubinstein A, Sage M, Sturke R, Shankar A, Sherr K, Smith K, Yadama G.   +21 more
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Exposure to solid and non-clean cooking fuels and the risk of obesity, hypertension, anemia, depression, and anxiety in women of reproductive age: a nationwide population-based study [PDF]

Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
Background Solid and non-clean fuels are primary contributors to household air pollution (HAP), yet their impact on women’s health remains relatively underexplored.
Shiva Raj Acharya, Diwash Timilsina
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Assessment of the association between health problems and cooking fuel type, and barriers towards clean cooking among rural household people in Bangladesh [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Background In low- and middle-income countries, households mainly use solid fuels like wood, charcoal, dung, agricultural residues, and coal for cooking. This poses significant public health concerns due to the emission of harmful particles and gases. To
Sayed Mohammad Rasel, Abu Bakkar Siddique, Md. Fahad Shahariar Nayon, Md Shakil Mahmud Suzon, Sanzida Amin, Sadia Sultana Mim, Md. Shakhaoat Hossain   +6 more
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Outdoor cooking prevalence in developing countries and its implication for clean cooking policies

Environmental Research Letters, 2017
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 the dissemination of clean cooking stoves, but these are often expensive ...
Jörg Langbein, Jörg Peters, Colin Vance   +2 more
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Moving towards clean cooking in China [PDF]

The Lancet Global Health, 2020
Renjie Chen, Haidong Kan
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A global review of the state of the evidence of household air pollution's contribution to ambient fine particulate matter and their related health impacts

Environment International, 2023
Direct exposure to household fine particulate air pollution (HAP) associated with inefficient combustion of fuels (wood, charcoal, coal, crop residues, kerosene, etc.) for cooking, space-heating, and lighting is estimated to result in 2.3 (1.6–3.1 ...
Sourangsu Chowdhury, Ajay Pillarisetti, Alicia Oberholzer, James Jetter, John Mitchell, Eva Cappuccilli, Borgar Aamaas, Kristin Aunan, Andrea Pozzer, Donee Alexander   +9 more
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Using machine learning to expound energy poverty in the global south: Understanding and predicting access to cooking with clean energy

Energy and AI, 2023
Efforts towards achieving high access to cooking with clean energy have not been transformative due to a limited understanding of the clean-energy drivers and a lack of evidence-based clean-energy policy recommendations.
M.D. Mukelabai, K.G.U. Wijayantha, R.E. Blanchard   +2 more
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Powering jobs: the employment footprint of clean cooking solutions in Kenya

Energy, Sustainability and Society, 2021
Background The delivery of clean cooking access to the 1.2 billion people who cook with charcoal, kerosene, and firewood may have a strong localized employment impact. With the challenge of a rapidly expanding youth population and growing job scarcity in
Chih-Jung Lee, Rebekah Shirley, Maureen Otieno, Hope Nyambura   +3 more
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