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| Title: | | Combating deforestation? Impacts of improved stove dissemination on charcoal consumption in urban Senegal  |
| Authors: | | Bensch, Gunther Peters, Jörg |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Ruhr Economic Papers 306 |
| Abstract: | | With 2.7 billion people relying on woodfuels for cooking in developing countries, the dissemination of improved cooking stoves (ICS) is frequently considered an effective instrument to combat deforestation particularly in arid countries. This paper evaluates the impacts of an ICS dissemination project in urban Senegal on charcoal consumption using data collected among 624 households. The virtue of our data is that it allows for rigorously estimating charcoal savings by accounting for both household characteristics and meal-specific cooking patterns. We find average savings of 25 percent per dish. In total, the intervention reduces the Senegalese charcoal consumption by around 1 percent. |
| Subjects: | | Impact evaluation energy access cooking fuels deforestation Africa |
| JEL: | | O13 O22 Q41 Q56 |
| ISBN: | | 978-3-86788-351-1 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des RWI Ruhr Economic Papers, RWI
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