Outdoor cooking prevalence in developing countries and its implication for clean cooking policies

More than 3 billion people use wood fuels for their daily cooking needs, with detrimental health implications related to smoke emissions. Best practice global initiatives emphasize the dissemination of clean cooking stoves, but these are often expensive and suffer from interrupted supply chains that...

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Published inEnvironmental research letters Vol. 12; no. 11; pp. 115008 - 115018
Main Authors Langbein, Jörg, Peters, Jörg, Vance, Colin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Bristol IOP Publishing 01.11.2017
Subjects
air pollution
Best practice
Cooking
Developing countries
energy access
health behavior
Households
LDCs
Policies
public health
Rural areas
Smoke
Stoves
Supply chains
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Summary:More than 3 billion people use wood fuels for their daily cooking needs, with detrimental health implications related to smoke emissions. Best practice global initiatives emphasize the dissemination of clean cooking stoves, but these are often expensive and suffer from interrupted supply chains that do not reach rural areas. This emphasis neglects that many households in the developing world cook outdoors. Our calculations suggest that for such households, the use of less expensive biomass cooking stoves can substantially reduce smoke exposure. The cost-effectiveness of clean cooking policies can thus be improved by taking cooking location and ventilation into account.
Bibliography:ERL-103459.R2
ISSN:1748-9326
1748-9326
DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/aa8642