Field testing and survey evaluation of household biomass cookstoves in rural sub-Saharan Africa
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a Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, 220 Mudd, Mail Code 4703, 500 West 120th St., New York, NY 10027, USA b Earth Institute and Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, 220 Mudd, Mail Code 4703, 500 West 120th St., New York, NY 10027, USA c UNDP-Millennium Villages Project, Uganda, 220 Mudd, Mail Code 4703, 500 West 120th St., New York, NY 10027, USA
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