REAP-Canada's mission is to build partnerships with communities, individuals, and organizations to provide research, development, and training services that support the creation of sustainable food, fibre, and fuel production. REAP-Canada works towards supporting the development of sustainable agriculture and bioenergy systems to meet today's energy needs. REAP-Canada supports the use of agricultural residues and energy crops as a fuel source for use in cooking and heating applications. Since 2001, REAP-Canada has been implementing improved cookstove programs with the Mayon Turbo Stove in the Philippines, the Gambia, and Nigeria. BIOHEAT programs involving use of densified biofuels have also been implemented in Canada and China. These renewable energy programs have been designed to reduce local air pollution and alleviate poverty and deliver greenhouse gas emission reductions eligible under the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol.
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Our Focus
REAP-Canada has implemented stove programs in the Philippines, China, and the Gambia and a project in Nigeria is currently underway. Development programs target both rural agrarian communities and urban centres and are delivered at national and international scales.
Our Experience And Interest In The Four PCIA Central Focus Areas
REAP-Canada and its partners engage members of the community and womens cooperatives in discussion to determine stove marketability and barriers to stove adoption. Collectively, we design workshops sensitizing communities of the technology and develop training modules and manuals to help new stove users to operate and manage the stove.
REAP-Canada and its partners conduct baseline surveys to determine the conventional local fuel use and locally available fuel materials and supplies. Follow-up monitoring is conducted to assess the ease of stove adoption and to acquire consumer feedback. Micro finance opportunities are provided through the local partners or local finance organizations.
Stove model is chosen upon a community assessment and baseline surveys. Stoves are locally adapted (based on family size, common foods cooked, agri-fuel resources available, local pots available, local kitchen design, etc.) and the model standardized for that region or country. Quality control mechanisms are implemented at production facilities to ensure a high quality product.
Stoves are tested for effluents and monitored during use through consumer use surveys and field testing. Emissions are compared to local and international standards.
Relevant Publications or Studies
Philippines Agricultural Climate Change Project: Conservation and Utilization of Crop Residues as a Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Strategy in the Philippines http://www.reap-canada.com/library.htm Strategies for Enhancing Biomass Energy Utilization in the Philippines http://www.reap-canada.com/library.htm Mayon Turbo Stove webpage (movies, presentations, and research articles attached) http://www.reap-canada.com/bio_and_climate_3_3_1.htm
Our Contribution to the Partnership
REAP-Canada can provide research, consulting, development, and outreach services to its partners and other organizations to help them meet the challenges of developing socially just and ecologically sound production of food, fibre, and fuel in domestic and international communities. REAP-Canada can assist in the development of bioenergy and climate change systems, modernizing biofuel use in household cooking, and greenhouse mitigation through stove programs through the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol.
