Poor People's Energy Outlook 2016 by Practical Action

Author:Practical Action [Action, Practical]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781853399350
Google: S41QvgAACAAJ
Publisher: Practical Action Publishing
Published: 2016-01-15T04:10:12+00:00

Household cooking

Wood is the primary fuel for all communities, although people also use crop residues and animal dung (applied to sticks and dried) as a secondary fuel (Table 5.2). Fuel is freely available in all the communities, but some households still reported buying wood, particularly during seasonal shortages. In Alamkhali (with its severe flooding) 21% of respondents reported buying fuel in the last year.

Table 5.2 Primary fuel type

Nationally there is a very low level of penetration of improved stoves. Among the 253 households surveyed, all were using home-made stoves (Tier 0), except for one with a low-grade manufactured stove. There was no evidence of fuel/stove stacking.

The division of labour is generally that women cook and prepare the fuel. Men and women share the task of gathering fuel, with men spending on average longer, except in Thanchi, particularly in the tribal area where women collect almost all fuel (Figure 5.5).

Overall, cooking takes the greatest amount of time per week (Table 5.3). A similar number of hours are spent preparing fuel (chopping wood or making fuel sticks) as collecting it (although not all households prepare fuel, as indicated by the percentage answering the question).

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