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Diagnosis of Socio-Economic Prospects and Constraints for Household Biogas Adoption: A Case of Lizulu Market in Ntcheu District of Malawi (2025)
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Chiumia, A. S., Tchereni, B., Chamdimba, H. B., Robinson, B. L., & Clifford, M. (2025). Diagnosis of Socio-Economic Prospects and Constraints for Household Biogas Adoption: A Case of Lizulu Market in Ntcheu District of Malawi. Energies, 18(10), 2636. https://doi.org/10.3390/en18102636

Biogas is once again emerging as a potential household cooking option that can help developing countries achieve energy targets. However, the adoption of biogas remains relatively slow, necessitating a diagnosis of the problem the review of literatur... Read More about Diagnosis of Socio-Economic Prospects and Constraints for Household Biogas Adoption: A Case of Lizulu Market in Ntcheu District of Malawi.

Is Bigger Better? Exploring Sustainable Delivery Models for Multi-Scale East African Smart Biogas Systems (2025)
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Robinson, B. L., Pemba, W., Ninsiima, V., Muhindo, G., Chiumia, A., Clifford, M. J., Hewitt, J., & Muvule, M. (2025). Is Bigger Better? Exploring Sustainable Delivery Models for Multi-Scale East African Smart Biogas Systems. Energies, 18(5), Article 1045. https://doi.org/10.3390/en18051045

With the deadline for the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on the horizon, the global community is forging a pathway through the ever-more complex global ecosystem to 2030. Whilst household-scale AD systems have seen significant... Read More about Is Bigger Better? Exploring Sustainable Delivery Models for Multi-Scale East African Smart Biogas Systems.

Stepping on the Gas: Pathways to Reduce Venting in Household-Scale Kenyan Biogas Digesters (2025)
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Robinson, B. L., Clifford, M. J., Ouma, E. O., Kinyangi, K. K., Adimo, M. W., Muchoki, C. N., Gathogo, G., Kithinji, L. K., Ngigi, T. W., Mbuguah, T. N., Rukaria, E. M., & Mwangi, S. M. (2025). Stepping on the Gas: Pathways to Reduce Venting in Household-Scale Kenyan Biogas Digesters. Energy Research and Social Science, 121, Article 103963. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2025.103963

One method of producing bioenergy is through Anaerobic Digestion (AD) of plant, animal, and human waste in a biodigester. AD is a cost-effective method of simultaneously managing harmful waste, creating biogas for cooking, and producing nitrogen-rich... Read More about Stepping on the Gas: Pathways to Reduce Venting in Household-Scale Kenyan Biogas Digesters.

Improved cookstoves to reduce household air pollution exposure in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review of intervention studies (2023)
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Phillip, E., Langevin, J., Davis, M., Kumar, N., Walsh, A., Jumbe, V., Clifford, M., Conroy, R., & Stanistreet, D. (2023). Improved cookstoves to reduce household air pollution exposure in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review of intervention studies. PLoS ONE, 18(4), Article e0284908. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284908

Household air pollution (HAP), primarily from biomass fuels used for cooking, is associated with adverse health outcomes and premature mortality. It affects almost half of the world’s population, especially in low-income and low-resourced communities... Read More about Improved cookstoves to reduce household air pollution exposure in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review of intervention studies.

Towards fair, just and equitable energy ecosystems through smart monitoring of household-scale biogas plants in Kenya (2023)
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Clifford, M. J., Robinson, B. L., & Selby, G. (2023). Towards fair, just and equitable energy ecosystems through smart monitoring of household-scale biogas plants in Kenya. Energy Research and Social Science, 98, Article 103007. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.103007

Anaerobic biogas digestors offer a technological solution to facilitate modern, sustainable, and equitable energy access, efficiency, and transition pathways to achieve United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 7 – affordable, reliable, sustainable... Read More about Towards fair, just and equitable energy ecosystems through smart monitoring of household-scale biogas plants in Kenya.

Transforming North-South research partnerships: Lessons learned from energy, technology & enterprise global challenge research fund projects (2022)
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Robinson, B. L., Clifford, M. J., & Jewitt, S. (2022). Transforming North-South research partnerships: Lessons learned from energy, technology & enterprise global challenge research fund projects. Energy Research and Social Science, 93, Article 102837. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102837

The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) provided a mechanism for academia to undertake projects relevant to the Sustainable Development Goals but there have been limited opportunities to critically interrogate such projects. In this paper we will... Read More about Transforming North-South research partnerships: Lessons learned from energy, technology & enterprise global challenge research fund projects.

Not quite cooking on gas: Understanding biogas plant failure and abandonment in Northern Tanzania (2022)
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Hewitt, J., Holden, M., Robinson, B., Jewitt, S., & Clifford, M. J. (2022). Not quite cooking on gas: Understanding biogas plant failure and abandonment in Northern Tanzania. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 165, Article 112600. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2022.112600

The potential for biogas to fulfil an integral role in promoting sustainable energy solutions, particularly in the Global South, is evident, and especially pertinent in the Sustainable Development Goal era. Internationally, multiple initiatives drive... Read More about Not quite cooking on gas: Understanding biogas plant failure and abandonment in Northern Tanzania.

A Review of Biomass Briquette Binders and Quality Parameters (2022)
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Obi, O. F., Pecenka, R., & Clifford, M. J. (2022). A Review of Biomass Briquette Binders and Quality Parameters. Energies, 15(7), Article 2426. https://doi.org/10.3390/en15072426

The adverse effect of the use of fossil fuels on the environment and public health has given rise to a sustained renewable energy research and development. An important component of global renewable energy mix is the use of loose biomass, including a... Read More about A Review of Biomass Briquette Binders and Quality Parameters.

Convenience in a residence with demand response: A system dynamics simulation model (2022)
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Bugaje, B., Rutherford, P., & Clifford, M. (2022). Convenience in a residence with demand response: A system dynamics simulation model. Applied Energy, 314, Article 118929. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.118929

Demand Side Management (DSM) is a means to gain more control over energy demand to address some of the challenges of power grids. Demand Response (DR) is an approach to DSM that aims to influence the operation times of appliances; DR is often recomme... Read More about Convenience in a residence with demand response: A system dynamics simulation model.

TIME to Change: Rethinking Humanitarian Energy Access (2021)
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Robinson, B., Clifford, M., & Jewitt, S. (2022). TIME to Change: Rethinking Humanitarian Energy Access. Energy Research and Social Science, 86, Article 102453. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2021.102453

Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 7-universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services by 2030-represents a considerable challenge. Currently, 40% of the global population do not have access to sustainable energy sources, and in... Read More about TIME to Change: Rethinking Humanitarian Energy Access.

Cooking for communities, children and cows: Lessons learned from institutional cookstoves in Nepal (2021)
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Robinson, B. L., Clifford, M. J., Hewitt, J., & Jewitt, S. (2022). Cooking for communities, children and cows: Lessons learned from institutional cookstoves in Nepal. Energy for Sustainable Development, 66, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esd.2021.10.012

Despite a long history of Improved Cookstove (ICS) interventions by Non-Governmental Organizations, International Development partners and the Government of Nepal, the majority of rural Nepalese people cook on a traditional open fire for their large-... Read More about Cooking for communities, children and cows: Lessons learned from institutional cookstoves in Nepal.

Which Biomass Stove(s) Capable of Reducing Household Air Pollution Are Available to the Poorest Communities Globally? (2021)
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Stanistreet, D., Phillip, E., Kumar, N., Anderson de Cuevas, R., Davis, M., Langevin, J., Jumbe, V., Walsh, A., Jewitt, S., & Clifford, M. (2021). Which Biomass Stove(s) Capable of Reducing Household Air Pollution Are Available to the Poorest Communities Globally?. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(17), Article 9226. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18179226

Globally, household and ambient air pollution (HAAP) leads to approximately seven million premature deaths per year. One of the main sources of household air pollution (HAP) is the traditional stove. So-called improved cookstoves (ICS) do not reduce... Read More about Which Biomass Stove(s) Capable of Reducing Household Air Pollution Are Available to the Poorest Communities Globally?.

A systems dynamics approach to the bottom-up simulation of residential appliance load (2021)
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Bugaje, B., Rutherford, P., & Clifford, M. (2021). A systems dynamics approach to the bottom-up simulation of residential appliance load. Energy and Buildings, 247, Article 111164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2021.111164

Residential demand from real residences can be resource intensive to collect. There is need to generate synthetic residential load in energy research, and new approaches are welcome. Most of the simulation models of synthetic residential load that ou... Read More about A systems dynamics approach to the bottom-up simulation of residential appliance load.

TIME to Change: An Evaluation of Practical Action Nepal’s Results Based Finance Program (2021)
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Robinson, B. L., Clifford, M. J., & Jewitt, S. (2021). TIME to Change: An Evaluation of Practical Action Nepal’s Results Based Finance Program. Energies, 14(10), Article 2891. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14102891

Set against the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 7, and the need to increase biomass Improved Cookstove (ICS) adoption and sustained use across the globe, this paper presents an evaluation of Practical Action Nepal’s (PAN) Results Based Fi... Read More about TIME to Change: An Evaluation of Practical Action Nepal’s Results Based Finance Program.

Understanding the current market enablers for Nepal’s biomass cookstove industry (2021)
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Robinson, B. L., Jewitt, S., Clifford, M. J., & Hewitt, J. (2022). Understanding the current market enablers for Nepal’s biomass cookstove industry. Development in Practice, 32(1), 52-68. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2021.1893659

This paper applies the market map tool to the Nepalese biomass cookstove market highlighting existing weaknesses in government policy, cookstove market chains and providing a framework for cookstove interventions that better address the social, econo... Read More about Understanding the current market enablers for Nepal’s biomass cookstove industry.

Current advances in microalgae harvesting and lipid extraction processes for improved biodiesel production: A review (2020)
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Vasistha, S., Khanra, A., Clifford, M., & Rai, M. P. (2021). Current advances in microalgae harvesting and lipid extraction processes for improved biodiesel production: A review. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 137, Article 110498. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2020.110498

Microalgae have been considered as a potential feedstock for biodiesel production, since its cultivation uses less land than other traditional oil crops and has a higher growth rate. A great challenge is a choice of an effective approach for microalg... Read More about Current advances in microalgae harvesting and lipid extraction processes for improved biodiesel production: A review.

A Review of Permeability and Flow Simulation for Liquid Composite Moulding of Plant Fibre Composites (2020)
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Pantaloni, D., Bourmaud, A., Baley, C., Clifford, M. J., Ramage, M. H., & Shah, D. U. (2020). A Review of Permeability and Flow Simulation for Liquid Composite Moulding of Plant Fibre Composites. Materials, 13(21), Article 4811. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma13214811

Liquid composite moulding (LCM) of plant fibre composites has gained much attention for the development of structural biobased composites. To produce quality composites, better understanding of the resin impregnation process and flow behaviour in pla... Read More about A Review of Permeability and Flow Simulation for Liquid Composite Moulding of Plant Fibre Composites.

“We cannot stop cooking”: Stove stacking, seasonality and the risky practices of household cookstove transitions in Nigeria (2019)
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Jewitt, S., Atagher, P., & Clifford, M. (2020). “We cannot stop cooking”: Stove stacking, seasonality and the risky practices of household cookstove transitions in Nigeria. Energy Research and Social Science, 61, Article 101340. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2019.101340

Drawing on qualitative data from three contrasting sites in Benue state, Nigeria, this paper explores how and why cooking system use and priorities vary over time and space as well as the influence of household air pollution (HAP)-related health risk... Read More about “We cannot stop cooking”: Stove stacking, seasonality and the risky practices of household cookstove transitions in Nigeria.

Market mapping for improved cookstoves: barriers and opportunities in East Africa (2019)
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Stevens, L., Santangelo, E., Muzee, K., Clifford, M., & Jewitt, S. (2020). Market mapping for improved cookstoves: barriers and opportunities in East Africa. Development in Practice, 30(1), 37-51. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2019.1658717

The East African region has been a hub for the development and marketing of improved cookstoves from the 1980s. However, there are differences in the rates of uptake of stoves between Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. To investigate, we use a participatory... Read More about Market mapping for improved cookstoves: barriers and opportunities in East Africa.

“We Learnt that Being Together Would Give us a Voice”: Gender Perspectives on the East African Improved-Cookstove Value Chain (2019)
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Sesan, T., Clifford, M., Jewitt, S., & Ray, C. (2019). “We Learnt that Being Together Would Give us a Voice”: Gender Perspectives on the East African Improved-Cookstove Value Chain. Feminist Economics, 25(4), 240-266. https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2019.1657924

© 2019, © 2019 IAFFE. Improved cookstoves (ICS) have been promoted for several decades, with little success. Advocates looking to drive uptake encourage greater involvement of women in ICS enterprises, on the largely unproven premise that women’s par... Read More about “We Learnt that Being Together Would Give us a Voice”: Gender Perspectives on the East African Improved-Cookstove Value Chain.