A market assessment for modern cooking in Malawi

Coley, Will and Eales, Aran and Frame, Damien and Galloway, Stuart and Archer, Lloyd (2020) A market assessment for modern cooking in Malawi. In: IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference 2020, 2020-10-30 - 2020-11-01.

[img]
Preview
 Text (Coley-etal-IEEE-GHTC-2020-A-market-assessment-for-modern-cooking)
Coley_etal_IEEE_GHTC_2020_A_market_assessment_for_modern_cooking.pdf
Accepted Author Manuscript
Download (448kB)| Preview

    Abstract

    This paper presents the findings from a study which used household surveys and expert interviews to investigate cooking practices and understand the barriers and opportunities to the growth of the modern cooking sector in Malawi. The findings from expert interviews highlight barriers to electric and LPG cooking around the weakness of existing infrastructure, lack of consumer willingness and ability to pay and resistance to the adoption of modern cooking devices. The greatest opportunity for electric cooking is in urban areas and on mini-grids, while LPG is also most viable in urban areas, however knowledge and infrastructure gaps need to be narrowed to facilitate growth. An analysis of household surveys in urban, peri-urban and rural areas, using data from “indicative cooking diaries”, demonstrates the diversity of cooking practices in Malawian households by showing what, how, and with what, dishes are cooked. It is demonstrated that there is a latent demand for modern cooking in Malawi. Targeted research is needed to test modern cooking devices’ ability to cook Malawian dishes in ways which are acceptable to Malawian people, in order to effectively accelerate a transition towards modern cooking in Malawi and address the negative health and environmental impacts of biomass cooking.

    Creators(s): Coley, Will, Eales, Aran ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9090-529X, Frame, Damien ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3236-2738, Galloway, Stuart ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1978-993X and Archer, Lloyd;
    Item type:Conference or Workshop Item(Paper)
    ID code:74499
    Notes:© 2020 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting /republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.
    Keywords:modern cooking, Malawi, market assessment, electric cooking devices, cooking fuel, Sub-Saharan Africa, sustainable development, Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
    Subjects:Technology > Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
    Department:Faculty of Engineering > Electronic and Electrical Engineering
    Strategic Research Themes > Ocean, Air and Space
    Strategic Research Themes > Measurement Science and Enabling Technologies
    Strategic Research Themes > Energy
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:04 Nov 2020 16:05
    Last modified:14 Jan 2021 03:14
    Related URLs:
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/74499
    Export data:
    CORE (COnnecting REpositories)