Successes and challenges of improved biomass cooking stoves adoption along the product value chain in Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania
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2019-11-23
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Journal of Energy Research and Reviews
Abstract
The aim of this study was to assess the adoption of ICS along the value chain. The existing studies
have focused much on measuring adoption based on the user’s installation or purchase of the ICS
and few have gone to the level of assessing other aspects along the ICS value chain. The argument
of this paper is that adoption is a multidimensional concept that goes beyond the initial acquisition of
the stove to the sustained use of the same. Using a cross-sectional study design data were
collected from 294 households in two Districts of Kilimanjaro regions and were analyzed using both
quantitative and qualitative approaches. The findings show that at the lower levels of value chain i.e.
promotion and distributions the efforts have been somehow successful since people are aware of
ICS benefits and negative effects of using traditional fuels and stoves. In addition, various stove
distributors and technicians are in place. On the other hand, the uptake is limited since only 26% of
all households had ICS in place of which only 22.1% had functional stoves. The intensity of ICS use
is very limited and households have not integrated the stove into household cooking behavior. The
study concludes that the stoves program implementers have adopted a disintegrated approach that
disconnects various levels of the value chain. The efforts are much concentrated at lowers levels
with limited interventions to address challenges limiting uptake, the intensity of use and sustained adoption. The study recommends that a holistic and integrated approach that will facilitate ICS
adoption along the value chain should be adopted. This approach will facilitate forward and backward communications on challenges facing each level of the value chain.
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Journal of Energy Research and Reviews 3(4): 1-12, 2019;
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Improved cookstoves, Biomass, Value chain, Adoption, Intensity use, Sustained adoption