Yahia Mahmoud
Senior lecturer
Cleaner cooking while producing biochar: factors affecting adoption of gasifier cookstoves in rural areas
Author
Summary, in English
surveys after 2-3 months and about 2 years, and at workshops. The main benefits of the cookstove identified by the users were fuel saving with significant impacts on household economies, reduced smoke and production of biochar for either cooking or soil amendment. Challenges were related to lighting, a need to refill the fuel canister, fuel preparation and different suitability for different types
of meals and meal sizes. The gasifier use frequency and biochar production rates differed between the sites, which had different climate, socio-economic conditions and fuel accessibility. The results will be of relevance for inclusion of user participation in cookstove designing and performance assessment as well as for stakeholders involved in marketing. They can also give guidance on the
relevance of gasifier cookstoves for production of biochar for use on farms.
Department/s
- Department of Human Geography
Publishing year
2019-09-25
Language
English
Document type
Conference paper: abstract
Topic
- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Conference name
Agricultural Research for Development Conference 2019
Conference date
2019-09-25 - 2019-09-26
Conference place
Uppsala, Sweden
Status
Published