As Cookstove projects dragged on, the evidence against their benefits mounted.
Some Cookstove companies that The Ken spoke to said they no
longer make claims about health benefits, given these results.
The alliance did not define what a clean Cookstove is in the early days because, back then, no one knew.
In 2016,
scientists working in rural Malawi found that the cleanest improved Cookstove did not cut pneumonia incidence in kids under five.
The main house features 12 rooms, three-and-a-half bathrooms, six working fireplaces,
19th-century stenciling on the stairway walls and a wood Cookstove in the kitchen.
In 2012, scientists published a study that tracked an improved Cookstove project in Odisha for four years
and found that use had declined over time.
When the United Nations gave away $50 advanced Cookstoves- very clean, top-end ones- in its refugee camps globally, the refugees sold it to buy chicken and beer, said
Fabio Parigi, executive director of Sustainable Grill, an Italian Cookstove company.