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Practical Action makes use of heat-retention cooking to stretch scarce cooking fuel.
Practical Action is a development charity with a difference. We know the simplest ideas can have the most profound, life-changing effect on poor people across the world. This is why, for over 40 years, we have been working closely with some of the world’s poorest people using simple technology to fight poverty and transform their lives for the better.
Practical Action has a unique approach to development – we don't start with technology, but with people. The tools may be simple or sophisticated – but to provide long-term, appropriate and practical answers, they must be firmly in the hands of local people: people who shape technology and control it for themselves.
Solar Cookers International (SCI) has worked in collaboration with Practical Action in the Kadibo region of Kenya considered to have a total service area population of 49,000. The project description as concerns SCI in agreement with US-EPA was to increase market access to clean cooking technologies (solar cookers, Upesi Stove, fireless cookers) for health and wealth in rural, Kadibo Division of Nyanza province, Kenya. For its part, Practical Action worked to promote technologies such as the Upesi Jiko stove, the Kenya Ceramic Jiko, a Rocket Stove and a metal hood to vent smoke out of homes.
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Resources
- A large collection of documents no many aspects of solar drying - Practical Action
- Information sheet on "Fireless Cookers" - Practical Action
- Solar Cooking and Health - Practical Action
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Contact
Email: nepal@practicalaction.org.np
Web: http://www.practicalaction.org
Twitter: @PracticalAction