Cooking with gas: How children in the developing world benefit from switching to LPG, 2015.
Author: Lisa M Thompson. Report developed for the World LPG Association.
To incentivise the full adoption of LPG for cooking, strategies such as generating demand for LPG stoves, strengthening the supply-chain of LPG stoves and fuel, and developing regulation mechanisms to ensure safety of LPG are essential. Creating a supportive infrastructure for operating, inspecting and maintaining LPG and other clean stove technologies are necessary during the transitional period.
Fully displacing the use of traditional cookstoves and open fires is a considerable challenge, especially for the poorest of poor who ration their earnings on a daily basis and usually do not have money left over for large household purchases. Policymakers in the energy, health, and environment sectors need to advance strategies to increase affordable and accessible clean cookstoves and fuels for the poorest sectors–those who pay the highest cost for fuel, relative to their income, use the lowest quality stove, and experience the highest costs of poverty in terms of poor health.
