Abstract
The dependence on traditional biomass energy sources for household use using traditional cooking stoves exacerbates deforestation and forest resource degradation and enhancing the global climate change.
This research is intended to identify the determinants of improved cookstove adoption and their implication to biomass fuel saving and climate change mitigation. To collect all the necessary data for this research cross sectional survey method was used. A simple random sampling technique was employed to select 254 sample households for this study. The binary logistic regression model was used to identify the major determinants of improved cookstove adoption. To estimate the greenhouse gas emission due to burning of biomass fuel for household use IPCC guide line tier one method was used. Results of the analysis indicated that improved cookstove adopter households significantly consume less biomass energy than the non-adopter households. Mirt improved cookstoves had a capacity to save approximately 817.58 kg or 0.82 tons of biomass per year per household. Moreover, the average annual greenhouse gas emission savings due to the adoption and use of Mirt improved cookstove technology was approximately about 1353.21kg or 1.35 tons of carbon dioxide equivalents per household. The binary logistic regression analysis results also shows that education level, annual cash income, access to credit, fuel saving and awareness were found to positively and significantly influence the adoption of Mirt improved cookstove. Furthermore, the sex of household head, the price of improved cookstove and the distance to improved cookstove market were found to negatively and significantly influence the adoption of the Mirt improved cookstove. Improved cookstoves have the capacity to reduce biomass energy consumption and greenhouse gas emission. Therefore, the dissemination of improved cookstoves to the wider community has a positive effect on fuel saving and GHG emission reduction, and should be undertaken by giving due attention to those determinant factors.
Keywords: Cookstove, Adoption, Biomass energy, Greenhouse gas
