THE DEVELOPMENT ARCHIVE
THE DEVELOPMENT ARCHIVE
EKO Haiti Development Archive serves as a clearinghouse of reports submitted by development and aid organizations, policy reports and recommendations developed by in-country experts to address problems in development and aid and other academic and literature-based documents.
- Nicaise S. Sagbo
- 2015
- Charcoal, Cookstoves, Economy, Energy
Conventional charcoal and firewood are the main source of energy in Haiti. They provide up to 90% of the country's energy for domestic and industrial use, resulting in severe environmental and health issues. The present study is initiated to better understand the reasons why two promising alternative technologies (improved cookstoves and alternative charcoal briquettes) have experienced low adoption in Haiti. The research was carried out in two districts in southern Haiti where the improved stoves and briquettes production units exist and where households benefited from a program distributing the improved stoves.
Haiti is one of the poorest and most severely hunger-stricken countries in the world (GHI 2013). Its contradictions are jarring: although Haiti has the largest relative agrarian population in the Western Hemisphere and relatively less land inequality than the rest of the region (Smucker et al. 2000; Wiens and Sobrado 1998), it is extremely food insecure.
