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Transforming North-South research partnerships: Lessons learned from energy, technology & enterprise global challenge research fund projects (2022)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

TIME to Change: Rethinking Humanitarian Energy Access (2021)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
Stanistreet, D., Phillip, E., Kumar, N., Anderson de Cuevas, R., Davis, M., Langevin, J., …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?.

TIME to Change: An Evaluation of Practical Action Nepal’s Results Based Finance Program (2021)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

“We cannot stop cooking”: Stove stacking, seasonality and the risky practices of household cookstove transitions in Nigeria (2019)
Journal Article
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.

“We Learnt that Being Together Would Give us a Voice”: Gender Perspectives on the East African Improved-Cookstove Value Chain (2019)
Journal Article
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.

A retrospective analysis of responsible innovation for low-technology innovation in the Global South (2019)
Journal Article
Hartley, S., McLeod, C., Clifford, M., Jewitt, S., & Ray, C. (2019). A retrospective analysis of responsible innovation for low-technology innovation in the Global South. Journal of Responsible Innovation, 6(2), 143-162. https://doi.org/10.1080/23299460.2019.1575682

The role of low-technology innovation in addressing global challenges is undervalued. Responsible innovation (RI) has the potential to direct low-technology innovation toward global challenges in the Global South, yet this possibility remains largely... Read More about A retrospective analysis of responsible innovation for low-technology innovation in the Global South.

Toilet training: what can the cookstove sector learn from improved sanitation promotion? (2018)
Journal Article
Sesan, T., Jewitt, S., Clifford, M., & Ray, C. (2018). Toilet training: what can the cookstove sector learn from improved sanitation promotion?. International Journal of Environmental Health Research, 28(6), 667-682. https://doi.org/10.1080/09603123.2018.1503235

Within the domain of public health, commonalities exist between the sanitation and cookstove sectors. Despite these commonalities and the grounds established for cross-learning between both sectors, however, there has not been much evidence of knowle... Read More about Toilet training: what can the cookstove sector learn from improved sanitation promotion?.

Finance and the improved cookstove sector in East Africa: barriers and opportunities for value-chain actors (2018)
Journal Article
Hewitt, J., Ray, C., Jewitt, S., & Clifford, M. (2018). Finance and the improved cookstove sector in East Africa: barriers and opportunities for value-chain actors. Energy Policy, 117, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2018.02.044

Despite a long history of diverse approaches designed to increase the adoption of improved cookstoves (ICS), multiple barriers continue to exist which stunt their uptake in many developing countries. This paper focuses specifically on the financial b... Read More about Finance and the improved cookstove sector in East Africa: barriers and opportunities for value-chain actors.

From barriers to enablers: where next for Improved cookstoves? (2017)
Journal Article
Ray, C., Sesan, T., Clifford, M., & Jewitt, S. (2017). From barriers to enablers: where next for Improved cookstoves?. Boiling Point, 2-5

The 'Barriers to the introduction and uptake of improved cookstoves (ICS) in East and Southern Africa' is a three year research project funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Department for International Development... Read More about From barriers to enablers: where next for Improved cookstoves?.

What's for dinner? Gendered decision-making and energy efficient cookstoves in Benue State, North Central Nigeria (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Atagher, P., Clifford, M., Jewitt, S., & Ray, C. (2017). What's for dinner? Gendered decision-making and energy efficient cookstoves in Benue State, North Central Nigeria. In C. Brebbia, & J. Sendra (Eds.), WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, volume 224, (101-111). https://doi.org/10.2495/ESUS170101

Solid biomass collection such as firewood rests mostly on women and children in settings where traditional fuels dominates household energy choices. A 2015 World Health Organisation (WHO) report estimated that 3.5 million people globally rely on soli... Read More about What's for dinner? Gendered decision-making and energy efficient cookstoves in Benue State, North Central Nigeria.