StoneComms research repository
Independent research examining the systems shaping Africa’s climate economy, with sources, limitations and methodology kept visible.
Rwanda is preparing to expand its industrial parks while studying how Korea turned waste heat, wastewater and by-products into competitive infrastructure. The lesson is larger than circular economy. Africa's zones can lower production costs, improve resilience and satisfy tougher export standards if park operators are equipped to measure, match, contract and finance exchanges between firms. StoneComms proposes a Symbiosis Readiness Test for deciding where that promise is commercially real - and where it is still decorative.
Read research →Africa’s clean-cooking push is finally attracting serious money and delivering record gains. It is also concentrating risk. Liquefied petroleum gas now provides more than 70 per cent of the continent’s clean-cooking access, captured nearly half of recent summit disbursements, and remains exposed to imported-fuel prices and maritime chokepoints. The answer is not to retreat from LPG. It is to judge every clean-cooking pathway by whether households can keep using it when prices, suppliers or projects fail.
Read research →Africa's women-business finance market is attracting smarter capital, from first-loss guarantees in Kenya to dedicated credit lines and guarantee platforms across the continent. But the latest institutional evidence points to a deeper constraint: capital cannot reach firms that remain difficult to identify, register, assess, collateralise, serve and connect to markets. StoneComms proposes a Financeability Stack that treats those preconditions as investable infrastructure rather than side projects.
Read research →Mission 300 is accelerating electricity connections across Africa. The next challenge is making those connections economically durable. StoneComms finds that farms, small businesses, clinics, schools, cold chains and mobility can do more than benefit from electricity: they can become the anchor loads that improve the economics of distributed power itself.
Read research →Africa has built the legal architecture for a continental market. The harder task is making the systems firms use every day work across borders. StoneComms tests that challenge against live reforms in East, West, Central and Southern Africa and finds a practical investment implication: regional infrastructure should be financed as an operating system, not a collection of assets.
Read research →Kenya has entered a rare policy window: electric mobility is scaling quickly, battery swapping is becoming infrastructure rather than a product feature, and the legal framework is still being written. The strategic question is not whether one battery should win. It is which interfaces must be shared before proprietary networks become expensive to unwind.
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