cooking fuel

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Social Enterprise

Clean Coal in Kenya

How one social entrepreneur is bringing clean charcoal to low-income households in Kenya

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Value Chains

Weekly News Roundup: Elections in Ecuador and Reflections in Ghana

What the world discussed this week.

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Financial Inclusion

Government Sieges Cause Food Shortages in Syria

As food becomes scarce, Syrians improvise to feed their families.

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The Week Ahead: Millions of Dollars from Bangladesh Go Missing

A weekly round-up of mainstream news about the context in which Mercy Corps works, focused on development and innovation.

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Sustainable Energy

Jumpstarting Africa's Economy with Clean Energy

Development banks are tackling poverty and climate change one village at a time

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Global Ideas News Brief: Food for a growing African economy

A weekly round-up of mainstream news about the context in which Mercy Corps works, focused on economic development and innovations.

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Value Chains

Q&A: What it takes to feed 842 million people worldwide

Ending global hunger will take more than handouts. The Mercy Corps team thinks outside the box to overcome complex barriers to food security.

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Global Ideas News Brief: Improving microinsurance + Building peace online

Improving microinsurance, building peace online, and why solar lamps are like cash transfers. Staff Picks: What we're reading this week.

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Global Ideas News Brief: Financing coffee + The Pope's capitalism commentary

Financing coffee, developing countries' thirst for energy and the Pope's capitalism. Staff Picks: What we're reading this week.

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Global Ideas News Brief: Pyramid schemes + Complex stories

Face to face contact works for Africa's poorest customers, the promise of small-scale Ag and why NGOs should tell complex stories. Staff picks: what we're reading this week

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Social Enterprise

EcoZoom: A Three Part Model For Doing Business in Africa

EcoZoom is bringing safer, cleaner cookstoves to relief, development, and commercial markets in Somalia, Rwanda, and Kenya.

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Sustainable Energy

Free trials and payment plans: Innovative ways to market clean energy products in rural Uganda

Families in rural northern Uganda who cook over open fires and use kerosene as their primary light source face numerous health and safety issues - they should be rushing to buy fuel efficient cookstoves and solar units. Why aren't they?

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Sustainable Energy

Nom, Nom, Nom: The Earth Will Eat Itself

We're plundering the earth’s natural resources at an incredibly fast rate--so fast that the planet cannot keep pace. But innovations and investments in renewable energy offer a glimmer of hope.

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Sustainable Energy

Poverty and climate change: An interview with Eliot Levine, Mercy Corps senior climate change advisor

When Cyclone Nargis ravaged Myanmar in 2008, inundating its lowlands and killing some 138,000 people, experts blamed the severe weather conditions on climate change.

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Sustainable Energy

Unlocking Uganda’s potential market for fuel-efficient stoves

There’s significant demand for fuel-efficient stoves in northern Uganda, where 76 percent of the population relies on open fires for cooking. But tapping into that market is easier said than done.