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As African countries race to cushion the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, policy makers and governments have realised the need to design new policies that cater to the immediate and future needs of their citizenry. Many of these policies, though well intentioned, have largely ignored homegrown science communication; yet science itself is not inclu...
Access to sources of cooking energy has potential impacts on food security, however, there is a paucity of information and empirical evidence on their linkages. This study sought to ascertain the impacts of access to cooking energy on household food security in Nigeria, using the nationally representative Living Standards Measurement Study data. Th...
The imbalance in the global scientific landscape resulting from the enduring legacy of colonialism in the south and the hegemony of scientific paradigms originating in the north is immense. Our paper makes a case for employing traditional knowledge systems and paradigms as tools for redressing this imbalance in African societies. To achieve this go...
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This chapter examines the state of science communication in Nigeria and offers perspectives on the development of an inclusive, homegrown science communication agenda. Critical points in the development of the science, technology, and innovation (STI) agenda in Nigeria and, indeed, Africa, correspond to the occurrence of major shifts i...
Energy has been a key focus of government policy in Nigeria for decades, yet little improvement has been seen in rates of access among the population. Our paper assesses the inputs to policymaking in this context and interrogates the role of scientific evidence and knowledge co-production in the process. Through key informant interviews and partici...
Efforts to replace traditional energy sources with modern ones in developing countries have met with limited success. A new study sheds light on some of the contextual factors that inhibit this shift as well as opportunities for nudging poor households in the desired direction.
Intercultural, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary research interfaces confront researchers with considerable challenges. Towards Shared Research portrays how scholars from different disciplinary and geographical origins and at various academic career stages strive for a more inclusive and better understanding of knowledge about African enviro...
Improved cookstoves (ICS) have been promoted for several decades, with little success. Advocates looking to drive uptake encourage greater involvement of women in ICS enterprises, on the largely unproven premise that women’s participation in the value chain will enhance their financial bottom line while giving a boost to ICS sales. This paper tests...
Within the domain of public health, commonalities exist between the sanitation and cookstove sectors. Despite these commonalities and the grounds established for cross-learning between both sectors, however, there has not been much evidence of knowledge exchange across them to date. Our paper frames this as a missed opportunity for the cookstove se...
The determinants of primary health facility performance in developing countries have not been well studied. One of the most under-researched areas is health facility management. This study investigated health facilities under the pilot performance-based financing (PBF) scheme in Nigeria, and aimed to understand which factors differentiated primary...
Efforts to develop and disseminate improved cookstoves among biomass-reliant populations have been launched by both Northern and Southern development actors, with the interactions between North and South constantly shaping notions of appropriate technology within local contexts. This paper examines elements of the interaction between the Centre for...
Improved stoves targeted at the 2.6 billion people worldwide that use solid biomass for cooking have not been taken up in the numbers expected by donors and practitioners. Following widespread critique of the subsidy-based dissemination models popular in the 1970s and 1980s, donors have begun to emphasise the potential of market-based models to inc...
From the mid-1980s, context-responsive, albeit increasingly market-based, approaches premised upon appropriate technology and participatory development principles have been widely promoted to address the perceived failures of previously favoured expert-led approaches to improved stove development in the global south. This paper investigates two nor...
Proponents' claims regarding the empowering potential of participatory development have been challenged by critics who maintain
that the practice of participation is constrained by structural inequities and hence is not as radically transformative as
the rhetoric would suggest. This article shows how the transformative potential of participatory ap...
This article traces the trajectory of cookstove development in the south beginning in the 1970s. Three distinct but overlapping phases of stove development are identified which were initiated in response to various risks identified by 'outsider' northern and multilateral actors to poor households in the south cooking with solid biomass fuels. The a...
Energy poverty has been defined as the lack of access of households in developing countries to modern energy sources, and their consequent reliance on solid biomass fuels for cooking. Improved stoves have been promoted by development actors since the 1970s to alleviate various environmental and health problems associated with biomass use, with larg...
Improved stoves have been promoted in the global South by international organisations from the North since the 1970s for a variety of reasons including mitigation of health and environmental hazards related to the widespread use of solid biomass for cooking. However, uptake of these stoves by poor households in the South remains low, bearing negati...