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Title Economic and social feasibility pilot of ethanol fuel for clean cooking in upland Sierra Leone
Full text https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7s23p3zn
Date 2023
Author(s) Armstrong, DK; Kailie, M; Koroma, AS; Kailie, M; Nasielski, P; Lybbert, T; Crump, A
Abstract Ninety-seven percent of Sierra Leonean households prepare food over wood or charcoal, a practice that leads to adverse health and environmental consequences. In this pilot study, we introduced ethanol cookstoves to households in Bo, Sierra Leone. We assessed their potential as an alternative to biomass fuels and the only existing improved cookstove, butane gas. Ethanol cookstoves were economically competitive with butane stoves, but could not outcompete biomass fuel (wood and charcoal). The cookstoves displayed significant benefits to women in time savings and comfort, but raised concerns around alcoholism, unequal access to technologies, and other gendered constraints in the cultural context.
Subject(s) Health Effects of Indoor Air Pollution; Health Effects of Household Energy Combustion; Good Health and Well Being; Affordable and Clean Energy; Improved cookstove; gender equity; ethanol; biomass; Sierra Leone; Medical and Health Sciences; Studies in Human Society; Development Studies
Coverage 16 - 29
Publisher eScholarship, University of California
Type of publication article
Source Development in Practice, vol 33, iss 1
Rights CC-BY
Identifier qt7s23p3zn
Repository Berkeley - University of California
Added to C-A: 2023-02-20;09:04:50