EnDev has published a guide on the inclusive design of RBF projects, drawing on its extensive experience with the topic. This guide offers insights into how various aspects of the Leave No One Behind (LNOB) principle, including gender considerations, can be integrated into the planning and implementation of energy access initiatives. Aimed at practitioners in the sector, the guide explores strateg...

The goal of this paper is to identify, systematize and disseminate inspirational best practices, successful tools, strategies, activities and approaches to promote behavioural change towards the adoption and sustained use of cleaner cooking solutionsamong low-income households and communities in developing countries.Cooking behaviour in a specific place or community is determined by many and often...

Africa’s development blueprint: Agenda 2063 seeks to transform the continent into a global powerhouse. The transformation should among other things deliver an inclusive and sustainable development by leveraging on the immerse natural and human resources in the continent. Against this backdrop of ambition an often-neglected contributor to a healthy economy is therole of clean cooking services in su...

Crop residue burning (CRB) poses a serious threat to the climate, soil fertility, human health and wellbeing, and air quality, which increases mortality rates and slumps agricultural productivity. This study conducts a pan-India analysis of CRB burning based on the spatial characteristic of crop residue management practices and analyzes the linkage among health, agriculture value addition, and reg...

Electric cooking has the potential to improve quality of life for people who cook using biomass, both by improving health by eradicating harmful emissions and by removing the need to collect fuelwood, thus freeing up time for other activities. This paper reports on a study that introduced electric cooking As an alternative to biomass-based cookingin10 households in Simli,a rural Western Nepali com...

Happy Seeder is one of the promising technologies which is used for sowing wheat without any burning of rice residue. Thistechnology is eco-friendly and improves the soil health as well as saves water.Assumptions used in economic assessment of Happy SeederFertilizer savings 10% (after 5 years), 15% (after 10 years)Yield increase 0-5%. Weedicide 50% (from 1st year)Saving of water 12cm/ha (30%) (if ...

The study evaluates the Zero-Till Happy Seeder as an alternative to residue burning for managing paddy stubble and enabling timely sowing of black gram, green gram, and maize under the soil conditions of Andhra Pradesh. It identifies the operational challenges of existing farmer practices—chiefly residue burning due to the narrow sowing window—and tests the Happy Seeder in sandy, clay loam, and bl...

Numerous sources provide evidence of trends and patterns in average farm size and farmland distribution worldwide, but they often lack documentation, are in some cases out of date, and do not provide comprehensive global and comparative regional estimates. This article uses agricultural census data (provided at the country level in Web Appendix) to show that there are more than 570 million farms w...

The customary occurrence of crop residue burning substantially increases air pollution. Authors examine the effects of nudges and cash compensation in curbing this practice using a field experiment in the rice-growing region of northern India. Information treatments include positively-framed and negatively-framed social norms and environmental awareness nudges. Authors identify the effects of info...

Crop residue burning contributes to poor air quality and imposes a health burden on India. Despite government bans and other interventions, this practice remains widespread. Here authors estimate the impact of changes in agricultural emissions on air quality across India and quantify the potential benefit of district-level actions using an adjoint modeling approach. From 2003 to 2019, authors find...