Research while behind the desk

Morocco has taken measurements to lower poverty rates and this has clear results, but the problem isn’t yet solved. Poverty rates dropped from 15,3 percent to 6,2 percent between 2001 and 2011, but this also contributed to an inequality regarding different areas in the country and gender inequality (African Development Bank Group, 2015). For example, the income disparity coefficient raised from…

Considering the outcomes of the interviews done by Noor van der Vorst (2015), there is several useful information for our project. Firstly, it appears that women find it a big effort to collect wood and/or gas bottles and also the drying of the wood in wet periods is considered a problem. The wood gathering takes a lot of time, time that could be spend on other things when having to use little to…

The idea of ‘clean cooking’ is not new, there are already several devices designed and produced for clean cooking. In this paragraph we analyse the COOx; the most important competitor. COOX Functions: Grilling, baking, simmering, frying Fuel: Little pieces of wood Goals/results: Less smoke production to improve health reduction of CO2 and carbon black emission, reduction of deforestation, women…

The climate is an important factor in the use and operation of the product. The area in which the product will be tested is ‘la région de l’Oriental’, situated in the North-East of Morocco.  The test locations are located in small mountain villages near Berkane. The climate in the region l’Oriental and Berkane is a Semi Arid Climate (lisd.org, 2015) . A Semi Arid Climate is characterized by…