[Stoves] Ghana: The potential of a dual purpose improved cookstove for low income earners in Ghana - Improved cooking methods and biochar production

[tmiles at trmiles.com]

Is anyone familiar with this study from Ghana? 

"The potential of a dual purpose improved cookstove for low income earners
in Ghana - Improved cooking methods and biochar production"

Gilbert  Ayine Akolgo, Eric Osei Essandoh, Samuel Gyamfi, Thomas
Atta-Darkwa, Ebenezer Nyarko Kumia, Claudia Maria Branco de Freitas Maia

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032117313059#!

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2017.09.044 

Abstract

Many cookstove designs and biochar programs have been implemented in many
countries around the world. These programs have had varied degrees of
success which is generally low. Some were able to achieve all their target
objectives, others achieved a fraction of their target objectives whiles
others achieved different results from their initial targets. The low
success rates have been attributed to disregard for various users'
considerations by the past implementers of such designs and programs. This
study seeks to determine the factors and features that Ghana cookstove users
want to be incorporated in the designs of their cookstove and biochar
programs. The study used a nationwide survey of household cooks. It was
found that about 99% of the respondents will prefer a smokeless cook stove.
The challenges that they will want eliminated from the conventional cooking
systems are ranked from the highest to the lowest as: smoke and heat
(35.80%), difficulty in use (21.8%), cost of cooking systems (6.8%), faulty
parts (3.1%), and fuel availability (2.90%). About 83% of the respondents
have no idea of the use of charcoal as a soil amendment tool (biochar),
which presents an opportunity to educate the communities about the potential
of biochar to improve soil fertility and quality. This paper therefore
recommends that future cookstove designers, researchers and biochar programs
implementers consider elimination of smoke and heat as well as fuel
availability ahead of the other factors considered in the design of
cookstoves.

 

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