Great news: the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) and SNV have built their 100,000th biogas digester in Vietnam.
MARD and SNV won an Ashden Award in 2010. The judges praised:
their highly successful partnership which has enabled the distribution of biogas technology across Vietnam on a massive scale in a way that is both sustainable and has the potential for further expansion. By popularizing the use of biogas among pig farmers, this programme has tackled Vietnam’s waste problem and has brought tremendous benefits to farming families.
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Tuesday, 11 January 2011
MARD and SNV reach 100,000 digesters in Vietnam
Friday, 3 December 2010
Our winners broadcast globally over the weekend
This Saturday, films of our winners are being shown across the world. The Rural Energy Foundation and the partnership between the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) and SNV will have their stories shared in Cancún. Their films will form part of a festival put on by the International Institute for the Environment and Development (IIED) as part of their Development and Climate Days side event. To be screened in the morning slot, they will form part of the five shorts presented under the theme 'Techonology and Adaptation: shifting towards sustainable energy production'.
On the other side of the globe in Japan, SELCO will feature in a programme analysing India's fast developing economy. To be broadcast nationally, the half-hour programme, 'Dynamic India', includes an interview with SELCO's founder Harish Hande. Harish is asked to shed light, from a social enterprise perspective, on the key to India's growth. The programme will be streamed live from NHK's website homepage and can be watched at 2:10, 6:10, 10:10, 3:10, 17:10 and 22:10 UTC (equivalent to GMT ).
(pic: Harish Hande, Founder of SELCO on 'Dynamic India' courtesy of NHK)
Thursday, 23 September 2010
SNV joins clean cookstoves alliance as founding partner
SNV pledges to contribute $250,000, as well as provide its extensive expertise in renewable energy, to help the Alliance meet its goal of deploying 100 million cookstoves by 2020.
Dirk Elsen, SNV Chief Executive, says,
The environment, renewable energy, and improved welfare of women and children are clearly defined SNV strategic concerns and each of our projects around the world is undertaken with them in consideration.
Follow the coverage on Hillary Clinton's $50m for clean cookstoves
("This could be as transformative as bednets or even vaccines.")
See: Ashden Awards report Stoking up a cookstove revolution and Ashden award-winning stove projects: TWP/AHDESA, GERES Cambodia and Aprovecho/SSM.
See also: the Guardian's Madeleine Bunting on Clinton and cookstoves.
See also: the Guardian's Madeleine Bunting on Clinton and cookstoves.
Update: Center for American Progress has this detailed summary: United States Joins Alliance to Promote Clean Cooking in Developing Countries (HT: ClimateProgress)
Pic: SNV's biogas project with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam, turns pig waste into cooking gas and fertiliser for crops
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Friday, 16 January 2009
Financing domestic biogas plants
In October 2008 there was an international workshop on this topic, held in Bangkok and sponsored by the Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV).
Several past Ashden Award winners were at the workshop, including:
The conclusion notes that the provision of transparent and direct financial incentives to rural farmers is a key factor in the uptake of biogas plants in SNV projects, where the finance is only available for plants that meet the required quality standards. The provision of subsidies and/or credit specifically for biogas plants is needed because they don't offer a way of earning income, but instead offer the user a chance to reduce costs, so allowing them to afford to repay the money loaned. Click here to read the rest of this post.
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