This article published in Energy Research and Social Science addresses the question ‘Why firewood? Exploring the co-benefits, socio-ecological interactions and indigenous knowledge surrounding cooking practice in rural Nepal’. In the push to deliver clean cooking via modern cooking solutions, the co-benefits of traditional cooking practices are often overlooked. By exploring these co-benefits in the context of Nepal, we found that transition to clean cooking can be achieved by:
- localising modern cooking solutions by modifying the design to suit cultural and practical needs, while simultaneously
- improving traditional cooking practices to reduce negative effects, as fuel stacking is inevitable, and
- delivering modern cooking solutions as part of a holistic array of development interventions.
Read the journal article here.