CleanStar Mozambique doesn’t fit easily into any of the typical award categories. But it deserves an award all its own. As we have pointed out in the past, the fumes from traditional three-stone cooking or from diesel-operated cookstoves are dangerous to the health of young people in developing countries. Bad air doesn’t get nearly the […]
In Mozambique, CleanStar Mozambique continues to be showered with accolades for its innovative business model, this time as Environmental Finance Magazine’s winner for the Bioenergy Finance Deal of the Year award. The company recently also won a special commendation from the IFC/Financial Times for
In Mozambique, the Cleanstar project led by Danish biotech company Novozymes, is making traction to supply ethanol stoves and fuel to the local market. Due to the project’s popularity, Cleanstar says they cannot keep up with demand. In the first month, approximately 200 stoves were sold and another 3,000 are on order. Mozambican farmers sell […]
In Mozambique, the first sustainable cooking fuel facility was inaugurated by Federal Minister of Agriculture José Pacheco. The CleanStar project will produce ethanol-based cooking fuel for sale with the company’s cookstoves, an affordable new form of cooking that is cleaner, faster and safer than using charcoal. The plant in Dondo, in Mozambique’s Sofala Province, will […]
