ABOUT

Bagazo is a for-profit organization that creates clean-burning cooking fuels from agricultural waste products for people in developing countries. Bagazo targets the 2.4 billion people worldwide who currently use dung, biomass, or wood-based products as their primary source for cooking fuels. In collaboration with the MIT Development Lab, Bagazo developed a unique process to create charcoal from the byproducts of sugar cane processing and corn cobs. The resulting charcoal is safer to use, cheaper to produce, and more environmentally friendly than existing biomass-based fuels. Bagazo will commercialize its charcoal initially in Haiti. In May 2007, Bagazo's business plan won the development track of the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition, one of the world's leading entrepreneurship competition. We also placed 2nd in the Ignite Clean Energy Competition.