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Key:Common name - Organization/Reference - Countries - Fuels

3 Stone (3 pierre amélioré)

Anagi (CEB/ITDG) Sri Lanka means "excellent" two pot clay

Angethi (K Smith) India

Astra Ole (IISC) - India

Bako (Ethiopia) charcoal stove (Winrock) adapted from the kenyan ceramic jiko evolved into Lakech

Basinthutu (New Dawn) - Swaziland

Beehive Charcoal Briquette Stove(SNV) Nepa

Buchari (BACIP/Nienhuys) Pakistan

Can Stick Stove (Wings) metal stove made from a can

CETA (Center for Appropriate Technology) Guatemala (1982) concrete base, metal frame and chimney - firewood, mold system used in Nepal Buchari stove

Chitetezo mbaula (IFSP) "protecting" stove Malawi Mulanje District portable clay stove protects women from skirt fires

Chulah - (ARTI) India

Magan Chulah

Cocedora (HELPS) - Guatemala, plastic retained heat cooker

Dembe (UNICEF/George)

Dodoma Stove

Ecostove (PROLENA) - Nicaragua

Ecolenca (Trees Water People) - Honduras MicroEnterprise Project, ceramic Justa stove

Ecofogao - Brazil

Finnish Turbo (MEGEN Power) Ethiopia See Turbo-Niemi

Ipa-Qalan (IRRI) Phillipines rice husk see Lo-Trau

Furno Jambar (Enterpriseworks) Senegal

Hara India (K Smith)

Henya Stove (Richard Njagu) Kenya Kiambu District, firewood, Upesi style stove with rocket combustion principles

HERL Chula mud and chimney stoves Sri Lanka (1950's)

Hyderabad India

Inkawasi (Centro ECO)- Ayamachay, Inkawasi, Peru uses rocket principle with plancha justa (2005)

Janata cooker - India - charcoal burning heat pipe cooker of 1960s

Juntos (Anderson) - Mocambique

Kimathi Jiko (Nairobi University)

Jiko la Mkaa (Swahili) Tanzania Generic term for charcoal burning stoves "Lijiku" in Ngoni

Jiko, Metal Kenya, Traditional charcoal burning stove

Jiko, Kenya Ceramic Jiko - Kenya ("jiko" Swahili for cookstove)

Jiko type Clay Stove (GTZ/ProBEC) portable clay stove

Jiko (CARE Canada) Zambian version of the Jiko Stove

Jengetahuni two pot mud stove (GTZ/PROBEC) Zimbabwe

Juntos Stove (Paul Anderson) wood gas stove

Justa (Aprovecho) - Central America plancha type stove

Kalan - Philippines ceramic, wood or charcoal

Kimaki Jiko (U Nairobi) - Kenya wood charcoal

Kuni Mbili Kenya means "two pieces of wood" in Kiswahili

Lakech (Bess)- Ethiopia

Laxmi (ARTI) - India, charcoal "goddess of wealth" stove

Lao Bucket Stove, Improved Low Bucket Stove, New Lao Bucket Stove (ARECOP) Laos, Cambodia Fuelwood Savings Program

Lao Kompong Chhnang Stove Cambodia CFSP

Libhubesi (Newdawn) the Lion Stove - Swaziland opposed flow rocket

Loketto - Kenya Improved charcoal burning stove

Lo-Trau - Vietnam, rice husk Lotrau in Los Negros, Philipines

Lorena (Aprovecho)mud adobe plancha stove ppt tutorialWright State University

Lukla Briquette Stove (SNV) Nepal See Beehive Charcoal Briquette Stove

Mai Sauki (Niger) "fast cooker" metal stove wood burning

Magan Chulo India

Mali - (Enterpriseworks/USAID)

Makoti (Thabo Nokonela) South Africa, sugar cane leaves, bagasse, sawdust

Mayon Turbo (REAP Canada, IRRI) Phillipines rice husk

Maendeleo (GTZ) - Kenya

Mbaula - Malawi, Zambia (GTZ/IFRS)

Mdula - Malawi (WWF/UIA Helsinki)- Modular Mbaula

Mirt or Mirte - Ethiopia charcoal stove

Mogogo and Moglo (ERTC) Eritrea, charcoal

Morogoro stove

Mud Stoves (ARECOP/RWEDP) Asia and Mud Stoves, Aprovecho/PCIA April 2005

Murhun zamani Niger "mud stove in Hausa

Naada" Stove (Escorts Foundation), Pakistan

Noflie Gambia metal stove - wood and peanut shell briquettes

Nixtamal - (HELPS) Guatemala pot cooking for tamales

Estufa Onil - (HELPS) Guatemala cast concrete stove

Orinja Stove (VERC/PCIA) Bangaldesh improved mud stove

Paru (RWEDP) gasifier stove, Myanmar REWEDP report #56-172 (rm56) and Beehive Charcoal Briquette Stove

Patsari - (Gira) Mexico

Peko Pe - Uganda, gasifier

Pisa-Tshiza (Aprovecho/GTZ/ProBEC) South Africa Mali stove with rocket burner

Plancha - (HELPS) Central America plate top stove for tortillas and flat bottom pots

Priagni (ARTI India) iron pot

Pyromid (Ecoprime) - US , charcoal briquette

Rondereza - Rwanda, "to save" economize"

Rocket (Aprovecho)

Samaki (Cambodia CFSP) clay stove

Sanjha Chulha (Nishant Bioenergy Consultantcy) India, briquette burning stove

Sarai (ARTI) India, charcoal, stainless steel steam cooker

Sarvodaya Sri Lanka

Satellite Stove (SNV) Nepal, rocket stove for 2 charcoal briquettes See Beehive Charcoal Briquette Stove

Sazawa charcoal stove, Tanzania

Siam Stove Cambodia

Shielded Multi Lid (Rouse)

Shisa (New Dawn) South Africa - Swazi Stove

Sigiri Kenya traditional metal stove (Biomass Use in Kenya, ppt)

Sierra Zip Stove (John O Conway)

SSIC Rice Husk Gasifier Stove - (San San Industrial Cooperatives) Myanmar REWEDP report #56-172

Sodo Ethiopia wood stove(Winrock) adapted from India 5 sizes

Sugad (TERI)- India

Swosthee - (RWEDP) - Malaysia

Thermette New Zealand water heater

Tibet Three Briquette Charcoal Stove - Nepal, Tibet, See Beehive Charcoal Briquette Stove

TLUD - (Juntos, Paul Anderson) Top Lit UpDraught gasifier stove

TNAU Double Pot (Tamil Nadu Univ)

Tsotso (New Dawn)- Namibia, Zimbabwe, Swaziland means "twigs" in Shona

Turbo or wood gas stove (Biomass Energy Foundation)

Turbo (Tapio Niemi) Finland, metal stove tested in Africa

Twin Stove Cambodia

Lira Upesi (ITDG) - Kenya means "fast burning" in Kiswahili

Upisi Ethiopia from Upesi (Kenya)

Zmartstove - US gasifier stove 1992 Biomass Energy Foundation

UCODEA (UCODEA) Uganda - houshold rocket stove

Uganda Stove (Aprovecho/GTZ) - Uganda

Vesto (New Dawn) Swaziland "variable energy stove"

Viro (New Dawn) Swaziland, development stove led to VESTO. No longer made.

Vivek (ARTI) sawdust stove design by Pria Karve

Voila 1 (Pontifica University) - Peru rice husk stove based on IRRI and Lo Trau

Volcano (UK) charcoal stove

Stove Links by Type

Kenyan Ceramic Jiko, charcoal

• Zambian version of Kenyan Jiko, CARE
• Senegal Furno Jambar USAID Enterprise Works
• Kenya Kimaki Jiko, U Nairobi
• Ethiopia Improved Poverty Stoves DFID charcoal
• Thailand Improved Charcoal Stoves

Clay Stoves

• Cambodia Samaki Clay Stove (CFSP)
• Malawi How to Make a Portable Clay Stove Picture Guide IFSP/GTZ ProBEC (Hedon)

Metal Stoves

• Niger Mai Suaki "fast cooker" wood
• Gambia noflie wood and peanut shell briquettes
• Namibia, Zimbabwe Tsotso Stove
• India Priangi wood iron pot
• Nicaragua Ecostove, Prolena, Ecofogao, Brazil
• Swaziland Basinthutu, Shisa, Viro, Tsotso
• India, Sarai
• Mozambique Juntos gasifier stove

Concrete or Masonry

• Guatemala Ceta plancha type
• El Salvador Justa Plancha Stove (Trees Water and People)
• HELPS Estufa Onil cast concrete stove project Don O'Neal
• Finland Stove Plan Trifinio El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras

Mud Stoves

• Mud Stoves, Aprovecho/PCIA April 2005

Improved 3 stone

• Burkina Faso wall around the fire

Improved Chulah

• India National Program on Improved Chulha
• India Astra Ole

Charcoal Stoves

• Ethiopia ESMAP Mirte Enclosed Stove
• Kenya Metal Jiko Traditional Charcoal Stove
• Madagascar Kenya Ceramic Jiko ITDG Steve Gitonga
• Modern charcoal - Volcano (UK) pyromid (US)
• Nepal Beehive Charcoal Briquette Stove(SNV)
• India, Sarai
• Thailand Improved Charcoal Bucket Stove

Last edited January 30, 2006 by Tom Miles and Erin Rasmussen.