Improved cookstoves ought to be one of the easy wins in global health. Inefficient, old-fashioned cookstoves do real damage to human health and family incomes. Traditional cookstoves are generally open fires in the middle of three stones, which hold the pot. The fuel is biomass (wood, animal dung, and crop waste) and coal, and the […]
Author Archives: Alanna Shaikh
Alanna Shaikh is an international development consultant currently based in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. She has worked in international development for about a decade with nongovernmental organizations, contractors, the U.S. government, and a United Nations agency. She has been in charge of programs in East Africa, Central Asia, and the Middle East and is currently a TED fellow.