About one billion people in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) still cook with polluting biomass fuels and technologies such as charcoal and firewood burned in rudimentary stoves.
The Frugal Innovation Histories project is a first step towards developing a series of in-depth case studies of bottom-up frugal innovation in developing contexts.
Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) is an innovative solution that can lead to potential job opportunities and help achieve the net zero goal. The carbon removal approaches can generate carbon removal credits.
African start-ups are rapidly becoming essential players in achieving socio-economic development and addressing sustainable development challenges.
The research takes forward the conceptual approach described as socio-technical innovation systems building, which was developed on the basis of in-depth historical analysis at Sussex on the solar home systems markets in Kenya and Tanzania.
Among the barriers to scaling up mini-grids in Africa are a lack of mini-grid-specific regulatory framework, unproven business models, demand uncertainty, limited access to finance, and lack of capacity.
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