Startup Costs and the Decision to Switch from Firewood to Gas Fuel

Edwards, John H. Y.; Langpap, Christian

doi:10.3368/le.81.4.570

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“…Much of the research on ICS adoption is focused on household-level determinants including income, household size and education levels (Chen et al, 2005; Duflo et al, 2008; Gupta and Köhlin, 2006; Heltberg, 2005; Kavi Kumar and Viswanathan, 2007; Khushk et al, 2005). Several factors are known to increase the likelihood of ICS adoption including household income, education (especially for females), household size, and access to credit (Edwards and Langpap, 2005). Female-headed households tend to adopt cleaner fuels and technologies (Lewis and Pattanayak, 2012).…”

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Stoves or sugar? Willingness to adopt improved cookstoves in Malawi

Jagger

Jumbe

2016

Energy Policy

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Malawi has set a target of adoption of two million improved cookstoves (ICS) by 2020. Meeting this objective requires knowledge about determinants of adoption, particularly in rural areas where the cost of traditional cooking technologies and fuels are non-monetary, and where people have limited capacity to purchase an ICS. We conducted a discrete choice experiment with 383 households in rural Malawi asking them if they would chose a locally made ICS or a package of sugar and salt of roughly equal value. Six months later, we assessed adoption and stove use patterns. Sixty-six percent of households chose the ICS. We find that having a larger share of crop residues in household fuel supply, awareness of the environmental impacts of woodfuel reliance, time the primary cook devotes to collecting fuelwood, and peer effects at the village-level increase the odds of choosing the ICS. Having a large labor supply for fuelwood collection and experience with a non-traditional cooking technology decreased the odds of choosing the ICS. In a rapid assessment six months after stoves were distributed, we found 80% of households were still using the ICS, but not exclusively. Our findings suggest considerable potential for wide-scale adoption of ICS in Malawi.

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Stoves or sugar? Willingness to adopt improved cookstoves in Malawi

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Jumbe

2016

Energy Policy

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“…Results also reveal that 31 percent of nonmigrant households have LPG stoves, suggesting that many migrant households possessed LPG stoves prior to migrating. Although LPG is a more economical choice on paper and in terms of energy efficiency per unit of energy than wood (Edwards and Langpap 2005), most migrant households continue to use wood as their primary fuel. Our survey results indicate that more migrant households purchase firewood (94 percent vs. 88 percent) versus collecting their own wood, which is an onerous task.…”

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“…Despite this cost disadvantage, most rural households, and even 46 percent of urban households, continue to use firewood. The continued reliance on firewood can be explained, in part, by the high startup costs (US$110 in 2005) for stoves and cylinders involved in a transition to LPG (Edwards and Langpap 2005). Despite the importance of firewood to the national energy budget and to the households who burn wood, it is not taken into account in national budgets because of the informal nature of the firewood economy.…”

Section: Cooking Fuel Consumption and Forest Change In Guatemalamentioning

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“…The scale at which biomass fuel is used around the world also explains why so much research focuses on the factors that determine household fuel and stove choice. Researchers suggest that the ascent of the energy ladder to cleaner fuels and improved stoves is associated with rising income and increased levels of urbanization (Heltberg 2004(Heltberg , 2005Edwards and Langpap 2005;Madubansi and Shackleton 2007). Increased income often comes from millions of migrants who live and work abroad and inject billions of dollars into their home countries.…”

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Burning for Sustainability: Biomass Energy, International Migration, and the Move to Cleaner Fuels and Cookstoves in Guatemala

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Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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“…Access to investment capital plays a significant role in converting from firewood consumption to other energy sources in Guatemala (Edwards and Langpap 2005;Heltberg 2005;Makdissi and Wodon 2006). More households in Los Cimientos had liquefied petroleum gas stoves than in El Rincón (Table 3).…”

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The role of remittances and decentralization of forest management in the sustainability of a municipal-communal pine forest in eastern Guatemala

Holder

Chase

2011

Environ Dev Sustain

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At the national scale, forest cover in Guatemala declined at an annual rate of 1.2% during the past quarter century because of settlement that removed primary forests in the northern region of the country; however, the majority of the population of Guatemala still resides in the densely populated central highlands and has extracted timber and fuelwood from adjacent forests for centuries. Using baseline data recorded in 1987 and 1996, this article reexamined the sustainability of a municipal-communal pine forest in San José La Arada, a municipality in eastern Guatemala. The pine forest declined from the period 1987 to 1996 because of overextraction of timber and fuelwood. Forest structure and forest use were reexamined from the period 1996 to 2007 to test the hypothesis that the forest continued to decline. Forest characteristics such as stand density, basal area, tree height, and evidence of forest use were measured to replicate the procedures from previous work at the study area. To understand changes in forest structure and forest use in the context of the rise in remittances and the introduction of decentralized forest governance that emerged since 1996, a household survey was conducted in two adjacent villages. Forest structure improved from 1996 to 2007. From 1996 to 2007, forest characteristics such as stand density, basal area, tree height, and forest regeneration improved and evidence of forest use decreased in the municipal-communal pine forest. The influence of large amounts of remittances from the United States and other regions of Guatemala to households in the adjacent villages and the decentralization of forest governance largely explains the shift toward forest sustainability in San José La Arada.

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Startup Costs and the Decision to Switch from Firewood to Gas Fuel

Cited by 60 publications

References 17 publications

Stoves or sugar? Willingness to adopt improved cookstoves in Malawi

Stoves or sugar? Willingness to adopt improved cookstoves in Malawi

Burning for Sustainability: Biomass Energy, International Migration, and the Move to Cleaner Fuels and Cookstoves in Guatemala

The role of remittances and decentralization of forest management in the sustainability of a municipal-communal pine forest in eastern Guatemala

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