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...

38% of global waste (810 million tonnes per year) is ‘uncontrolled’ (UNEP 2024), which meaning it is openly dumped or burned instead of being safely collected and treated. About 14% of people burn their waste at home because collection services are unreliable or unaffordable, and this figure reaches 41% in some regions such as East Africa.  The challenge is growing. As consumption patterns ch...

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...

Background: Approximately 2.8 billion people cook with solid fuels. Research has focused on the health impacts of indoor exposure to fine particulate pollution. Here, for the 2010 Global Burden of Disease project (GBD 2010), authors evaluated the impact of household cooking with solid fuels on regional population-weighted ambient PM2.5 (particulate matter ≤ 2.5 μm) pollution (APM2.5).Objectives: A...

This factsheet provides an overview of Clean Cooking Alliance's strategies for mitigating climate change and protecting the environment through the scale-up of cleaner, more modern stoves and fuels....