[Stoves] Billion Stoves Program

[cornelio torrijos]

Hello Dr. N. Sai Bhaskar Reddy,

Your apparently successful pilot project of improving stoves in several
villages in India with perhaps several hundred families starting to use
improve stove is encouraging. But it seems logical that your next problem is
scaling up successfully.

You wrote: "It is estimated that India alone requires about 120 million
stoves." This magnitude brings the improved stove adoption problem into the
realm of mass marketing.

But how to succeed without the funds needed to communicate and persuade
dispersed potential users?

I am certain that the creative energies and talents of marketing and
advertising students in India can find effective solutions.

Cornel




On 3/9/07, Saibhaskar Nakka <saibhaskarnakka at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> The idea of Dr. Tom Reed's Billion Stoves Program is very challenging and
> an
> urgent task to mitigate Global Warming / Climate change or variability /
> sustainable agriculture / biomass conservation and apart from Women and
> Children health issues. It is observed that due to increasing fuel prices
> and shortage of electricity there is growing demand for biomass and
> charcoal
> from urban areas and industries, which we have seen happening presently in
> our villages.
>
> Regarding achieving the Billion Stoves Program, it is a huge task, if we
> want to achieve sustainability in adoptation of efficient stoves. Through
> grant or subsidy we could provide efficient stoves, but from earlier
> experiences such projects were a great failure and people resorted back to
> their own traditional stoves. Here in this blog (includes two posters), I
> am
> sharing our project experience with community where 70% families in two
> villages have adapted efficient stoves. PARTICIPATORY PROCESSES IN
> COMMUNITY
> ADAPTATION OF EFFICIENT STOVES
> <http://e-adptstoves.blogspot.com/>  http://e-adptstoves.blogspot.com/
>
> Hoping this experience will be useful for designing a practical  plan for
> achieving Billion Stoves Program. It is estimated that India alone
> requires
> about 120 million stoves.
>
> With Regards,
>
>
> Dr. N. Sai Bhaskar Reddy
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