As I stressed earlier in a blog post here, despite the unprecedented global momentum behind championing clean cooking, the challenge of sustained adoption remains formidable today, just as it was during the first wave of improved cookstove programmes in the 1970s and 1980s (see, for example, here, here, here and here). The adoption that counts, …
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Embedding Clean Cooking within the Societal Pursuit of a Good Life: A Path to High and Sustained Adoption
One afternoon in the early 1990s, a group of pupils at the primary school I attended performed a drama about the Tsotso (twigs) stove (an improved biomass cookstove) to raise awareness about clean cooking. The message was simple: the open fires or simple metal stoves used for cooking in our villages were harmful and contributing …
Blessing Gweshengwe PhD 