What is it about?
This article examines Timorese women’s decision-making process of adoption of improved cooked stoves, using Slaski and Thurber’s conceptual framework of “motivation, affordability, and level of engagement”, developed by Slaski and Thurber (2009). Despite the obvious, evidence-based socio-economic benefits of using improved cook stoves, the majority of households still persist with their traditional cooking method. This article argues that the level of engagement with new technology needs to be contextualised in light of cultural attributes and beliefs which have led to the slow uptake of clean, efficient cooking technology.
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Why is it important?
Adoption of improved cookstoves is very important because it can prevent deforestation, reduce environmental pollution, indoor pollution, that affects badly health of women and children.
Perspectives
I hope this article contribute to new knowledge production in the area of health, environment, and energy policy in Timor-Leste and around the developing countries. It touch the ground on the concern of women´s basic needs. It gives some implications about how the cultural influences on household´s behaviour change to a new method of cooking.
Therese Nguyen Thi Phuong Tam
UNTL
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This page is a summary of: Women’s adoption of improved cook stoves in Timor-Leste: challenges and opportunities, Development in Practice, October 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2017.1363160.
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