Improving firewood for clean cookstoves 2016

How can rural residents in Colombia efficiently and inexpensively dry firewood for clean cookstoves?

This initiative is part of the Conservation Landscapes Program, funded by USAID, and developed by The Natural Heritage Fund (Fondo de Patrimonio Natural), in alliance with Minka-Dev. These organizations promoted a co-creation process, in collaboration with rural communities in the Caribbean Region of Colombia, to design clean cookstoves and develop a sustainable business model to create access to them. Given the humid and cold climate in parts of Colombia, a need exists to improve the ability to dry wood inexpensively. This challenge focuses on the generation of alternatives to dry firewood in regions above 3000 meters, with low sunlight and no electricity.

This contest digs deeply into a local issue with global implications: it seeks inexpensive technologies, practices and resource management strategies that will improve the quality of wood in humid and cold rural areas in developing countries. There’s a lot more to the story, so be sure to

What:

Reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (Mitigation)

Where:

Other developing countries

Who:

Any Actor

How:

Physical actions, Cultural actions

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