SENEGAL: Weighing the benefits of solar stoves

THIES Wednesday, November 19, 2008 (IRIN) - Researchers have sold over 1,000 solar stoves to rural families in Senegal in a bid to prove that the ovens can improve child and maternal health and reduce household fuel consumption. Many institutions including the World Health Organization (WHO) have backed these claims but to date no scientific evidence has been gathered. The University of California at Berkeley’s Center for Evaluation of Global Action (CEGA) is undertaking the first study of...