ArticleEcoHealth2018
Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) Supply and Demand for Cooking in Northern Ghana.
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- Successes and challenges to implementing the Fondo de Inclusión Social Energético LPG access Program in Peru: novel insights from front-end implementers.Energy for sustainable development : the journal of the International Energy Initiative · 2023Article
- A comprehensive review of the production, adoption and sustained use of biomass pellets in Ghana.Heliyon · 2023Review
- Breathing Room: Cleaner Fuels for Home Cooking in LMICs.Environmental health perspectives · 2023Article
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- Everybody Stacks: Lessons from household energy case studies to inform design principles for clean energy transitions.Energy policy · 2020Article
- Household fuel mixes in peri-urban and rural Ecuador: Explaining the context of LPG, patterns of continued firewood use, and the challenges of induction cooking.Energy policy · 2020Article
- Supply Considerations for Scaling Up Clean Cooking Fuels for Household Energy in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.GeoHealth · 2019Review
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Abstract
Like many other countries, Ghana relies on biomass (mainly wood and charcoal) for most of its cooking needs. A national action plan aims to expand liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) access to 50% of the country's population by 2020. While the country's southern urban areas have made progress toward this goal, LPG use for cooking remains low in the north. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to characterize the current state of the LPG market in this area and examine opportunities and barriers to scale up LPG adoption. We interviewed 16 LPG suppliers (stove, cylinder, and fuel vendors) as well as 592 households in the Kassena-Nankana Districts (KND) of Ghana. We find large rural-urban differences in LPG uptake: less than 10% of rural households own LPG stoves compared with over half of urban households. Awareness of LPG is high across the region, but accessibility of fuel supply is highly limited, with just one refilling station located in the KND. Affordability is perceived as the main barrier to LPG adoption, and acceptability is also limited by widespread concerns about the safety of cooking with LPG. Transitioning to a cylinder recirculation model, and providing more targeted subsidies and credit options, should be explored to expand access to cleaner cooking in this region.
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