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Cooking fuels and the push for cleaner alternatives: a case study from Burkina Faso
INTRODUCTION: More than 95% of the population in Burkina Faso uses some form of solid biomass fuel. When these fuels are burned in traditional, inefficient stoves, pollutant levels within and outside the home can be very high. This can have important consequences for both health and climate change....
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CoAction Publishing
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3392076/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22778710 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v2i0.2088 |
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author | Yamamoto, Shelby Sié, Ali Sauerborn, Rainer |
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description | INTRODUCTION: More than 95% of the population in Burkina Faso uses some form of solid biomass fuel. When these fuels are burned in traditional, inefficient stoves, pollutant levels within and outside the home can be very high. This can have important consequences for both health and climate change. Thus, the push to switch to cleaner burning fuels is advantageous. However, there are several considerations that need to be taken into account when considering the use and promotion of different fuel types. OBJECTIVE: In the setting of the semi-urban area of Nouna, Burkina Faso, we examine the common fuel types used (wood, charcoal and liquid petroleum gas (LPG)) in terms of consumption, energy, availability, air pollution and climate change. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Although biomass solid fuel does offer some advantages over LPG, the disadvantages make this option much less desirable. Lower energy efficiencies, higher pollutant emission levels, the associated health consequences and climate change effects favour the choice of LPG over solid biomass fuel use. Further studies specific to Burkina Faso, which are lacking in this region, should also be undertaken in this area to better inform policy decisions. |
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spelling | pubmed-33920762012-07-09 Cooking fuels and the push for cleaner alternatives: a case study from Burkina Faso Yamamoto, Shelby Sié, Ali Sauerborn, Rainer Glob Health Action Climate change and infectious diseases INTRODUCTION: More than 95% of the population in Burkina Faso uses some form of solid biomass fuel. When these fuels are burned in traditional, inefficient stoves, pollutant levels within and outside the home can be very high. This can have important consequences for both health and climate change. Thus, the push to switch to cleaner burning fuels is advantageous. However, there are several considerations that need to be taken into account when considering the use and promotion of different fuel types. OBJECTIVE: In the setting of the semi-urban area of Nouna, Burkina Faso, we examine the common fuel types used (wood, charcoal and liquid petroleum gas (LPG)) in terms of consumption, energy, availability, air pollution and climate change. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Although biomass solid fuel does offer some advantages over LPG, the disadvantages make this option much less desirable. Lower energy efficiencies, higher pollutant emission levels, the associated health consequences and climate change effects favour the choice of LPG over solid biomass fuel use. Further studies specific to Burkina Faso, which are lacking in this region, should also be undertaken in this area to better inform policy decisions. CoAction Publishing 2009-11-11 /pmc/articles/PMC3392076/ /pubmed/22778710 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v2i0.2088 Text en © 2009 Shelby Yamamoto et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Climate change and infectious diseases Yamamoto, Shelby Sié, Ali Sauerborn, Rainer Cooking fuels and the push for cleaner alternatives: a case study from Burkina Faso |
title | Cooking fuels and the push for cleaner alternatives: a case study from Burkina Faso |
title_full | Cooking fuels and the push for cleaner alternatives: a case study from Burkina Faso |
title_fullStr | Cooking fuels and the push for cleaner alternatives: a case study from Burkina Faso |
title_full_unstemmed | Cooking fuels and the push for cleaner alternatives: a case study from Burkina Faso |
title_short | Cooking fuels and the push for cleaner alternatives: a case study from Burkina Faso |
title_sort | cooking fuels and the push for cleaner alternatives: a case study from burkina faso |
topic | Climate change and infectious diseases |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3392076/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22778710 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v2i0.2088 |
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