The fire crises in the Amazon continues to increase the risk of large-scale forest dieback, threatening regional biodiversity and global climate. This issue gained international attention in 2019 when fires in the Brazilian Amazon led to a fire ban imposition. Despite the uncertainty of its impact, the fire ban was reenacted in subsequent years. Here we assess the effectiveness of each fire ban by...

Punjab has set a target to manage the entire 100 per cent (~20 million metric tonnes) of its paddy residue in 2024. The state aims to achieve this by scaling up the in-situ and ex-situ crop residue management (CRM) practices in the state. Last year, the state witnessed over 35,000 Kharif farm fires. While this stands lower compared to the cases reported during the pre-covid era, it continues to pl...

This account describes the context, history and outcomes of a series of studies into the ecology of slash-and-burn (S-B) agriculture in the world's humid tropics. These studies, which began in the mid-1980s, identified promising lines of research and continued to field trials, in Central America, of candidate agricultural systems as possible sustainable alternatives to the practice. The only syste...

This resource compares till-and-burn farming with Conservation Agriculture (CA), showing how residue removal leads to erosion, weed pressure, and higher costs, while CA reduces erosion, boosts yields through post-emergence fertilization, and lowers labor needs. It also notes that CA adoption works best when introduced first to private farmers, as community groups tend to move more slowly due to sh...

Women have a role to play in every segment of the clean cooking value chain. Women’s involvement can increase project effectiveness and help scale adoption of products and services, while also impacting their livelihoods. There is a huge pay off when practitioners take the time and effort to integrate women and understand gender dynamics — it can increase their bottom line, while providing health,...

Verifiable data about clean cooking technologies are critical to developing effective policies and programs. This requires definitions, testing methods, and metrics that are agreed upon by the many clean cooking stakeholders....

While there are innovative local cookstove and fuel enterprises in Haiti, they face a difficult operating and policy environment with tariff barriers, lack of access to raw materials, and weak sector coordination mechanisms. Consumers’ inability to pay for higher performing products and the low awareness of the benefits of clean cooking further complicate prospects. In addition, a rapid transition...

Explore global cooking energy data across multiple dimensions. This portal brings together global datasets relevant for cookstove project activities, with the aim of supporting efforts to quantify the climate and other impacts of cooking energy transitions. ...

This factsheet provides an overview of Clean Cooking Alliance's specific gender strategy for increasing the role of women in the clean cooking sector and for addressing gender issues to scale adoption....

Surface ozone (O3) pollution poses significant threats to crop production and food security worldwide, but an assessment of present-day and future crop yield losses due to exposure to O3 still abides with great uncertainties, mostly due: (1) to the large spatiotemporal variability and uncertain future projections of O3 concentration itself; (2) different methodological approaches to quantify O3 ex...