Socioeconomic analysis of adopting modern cooking fuels

Abstract

The low adoption rate of modern cooking fuels has been a challenge in most countries with low development where biomass is used in high quantity cooking energy. Low adoption rates has been attributed to several factors, but little attention has been given to the household in terms of their economic status in the use of modern fuels for cooking. Further, results show that households headed by females living on their own within the urban region are likely to adopt modern cooking fuels. The research study concluded that although modern cooking fuels are appropriate for improved technology with multiple benefits including social and economic also environmental benefits, such benefits were not sufficient for the poor households to adopt the modern cooking fuels. Therefore, the study recommends the government and policymakers on increased awareness campaigns to emphasize the economic, social, and environmental values of modern fuels for cooking and to use more strategies for changing rural behavior.