COTTAGE GROVE, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon nonprofit hopes a cookstove it developed can help poor people around the world feed themselves better while reducing pollution and the demand for fuel.
The Aprovecho Research Center in Cottage Grove recently welcomed representatives of the World Food Programme and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to see cookstove technology and innovations.
The Oregonian reports the center hopes that its cookstove will reduce indoor air pollution and help prevent deforestation and climate change.
Aprovecho workers are now building 200 stoves paid for by the World Food Programme and bound for Darfur in Africa. The barrel-sized stoves will be used in schools, hospitals and other settings where large numbers of people need feeding.
