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The forest cover impacts of improved cookstoves

Working paper Energy and Sustainable Growth

This study evaluates the impact of Rwanda’s Tubeho Neza improved cookstove programme on forest cover using staggered rollout data and satellite-based vegetation measures. It finds that cookstove adoption increases overall vegetation, with gains in forest cover in high-baseline areas and non-forest vegetation elsewhere.

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Abubakr Ayesh

Assistant Professor, Trinity University

Colette Salemi

Assistant Professor, University of Victoria (British Columbia)

Sebastian Anti

Assistant Professor, Bryn Mawr College
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