Biomass fuel use by the rural households in Chittagong region, Bangladesh

Miah, Danesh; Ahmed, Raju; Uddin, Mohammad Belal

doi:10.1016/s0961-9534(02)00173-3

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“…5). Miah et al (2003) and Jashimuddin et al (2006) also found almost the same results in other parts of Bangladesh.…”

Section: Collection Of Biomass and Its End Usessupporting

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“…5). Miah et al (2003) and Jashimuddin et al (2006) also found almost the same results in other parts of Bangladesh.The study indicated that most of the households were dependent on their own homesteads and agricultural lands as their main source of biomass fuel which had a great adverse impact on their agriculture and homestead forest. The rural household with no …”

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“…Sarker & Islam (1998) studied the household biomass fuel energy situation in the poor forest regions of Bangladesh. Miah et al (2003) studied the biomass fuel use by the rural households in Chittagong region, Bangladesh. Jashimuddin et al (2006) investigated the preference and consumption pattern of biomass fuel in some disregarded villages of Bangladesh.…”

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Domestic use of biomass fuel in the rural Meghna floodplain areas of Bangladesh

Akther¹,

Miah²,

Koike³

2010

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© iForest -Biogeosciences and Forestry IntroductionBiomass fuels contribute to the largest share of the energy uses in Bangladesh. Currently, biomass is the fourth largest source of energy which supplies 15% of the energy use in the world (Sudha & Ravindranath 1998). Only in the developing countries, traditional biomass fuels meet a large percentage (38%) of the total energy needs (Sudha et al. 2003). In some countries like Bangladesh, its use is as so high as 75-90%, mainly used for cooking and heating (Sudha et al. 2003). Woody and non-woody biomass in the form of fuelwood, crop residues and cowdung dominates as the energy source in the low income country. Rural households are the major consumer in this respect.About 77% of the populations in Bangladesh live in the rural areas and they need energy for their domestic use like cooking, crop processing, lighting, agricultural industries, social welfare and commercial activities (BBS 2006). Because of over exploitation of natural and homestead forests, fuel shortage intensity is being increased day by day. In Bangladesh, biomass plays an important role, especially in the rural areas, where most of the people live. The overuse of fuelwood is significantly sharing the deforestation process. In addition to this, there is an increased use of crop residues and cowdung as fuel which is depriving the agricultural soil of valuable nutrients and organic matter. However, the fuel choice by the households is influenced by the income, family size, educational status and the occupation of the household members (Rao & Reddy 2007). Sarker & Islam (1998) studied the household biomass fuel energy situation in the poor forest regions of Bangladesh. Miah et al. (2003) studied the biomass fuel use by the rural households in Chittagong region, Bangladesh. Jashimuddin et al. (2006) investigated the preference and consumption pattern of biomass fuel in some disregarded villages of Bangladesh. Akhter et al. (1999) studied the homestead biomass fuel energy situation of a forest rich district, Cox's Bazar. Rao & Reddy (2007) studied the variations of energy use by Indian households. Wijayatunga & Attalage (2002) analyzed the household cooking energy demand and its environmental impact in Sri Lanka. Xiaohua & Zhenming (1996) carried out a survey of rural household energy consumption in China.To know the biomass consumption and expenditure pattern in the rural households, no study was so far found in the Meghna floodplain zone of Bangladesh. Thus, the study was conducted to understand the biomass fuel consumption and its expenditure by the rural households in the specified geographical location. The findings of the study are expected to contribute to the sustainable energy development in Bangladesh. Methodology Study areaThe study was conducted at Raipura Upazila (local government unit under a district in Bangladesh) of Narsingdi district ( Fig. 1 Rural households in the developing countries constitute the largest share of the biomass fuel consumption. It is also a major source of energy in...

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“…5). Miah et al (2003) and Jashimuddin et al (2006) also found almost the same results in other parts of Bangladesh.…”

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Domestic use of biomass fuel in the rural Meghna floodplain areas of Bangladesh

Akther¹,

Miah²,

Koike³

2010

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“…As in many developing countries, use of traditional cookstoves for food preparation in rural Bangladesh is highly prevalent. According to the most recent population census, 77% of Bangladesh's 131 million residents live in rural areas (31), and 98-99% of the rural population burns biomass fuels by using traditional cookstoves for cooking and heating (20,(32)(33)(34). Households generally construct traditional cookstoves themselves with locally available materials and use biomass fuels that they can gather for free, such as dry leaves and branches, crop refuse, and hay.…”

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Low demand for nontraditional cookstove technologies

Mobarak

Dwivedi²,

Bailis³

et al. 2012

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Biomass combustion with traditional cookstoves causes substantial environmental and health harm. Nontraditional cookstove technologies can be efficacious in reducing this adverse impact, but they are adopted and used at puzzlingly low rates. This study analyzes the determinants of low demand for nontraditional cookstoves in rural Bangladesh by using both stated preference (from a nationally representative survey of rural women) and revealed preference (assessed by conducting a cluster-randomized trial of cookstove prices) approaches. We find consistent evidence across both analyses suggesting that the women in rural Bangladesh do not perceive indoor air pollution as a significant health hazard, prioritize other basic developmental needs over nontraditional cookstoves, and overwhelmingly rely on a free traditional cookstove technology and are therefore not willing to pay much for a new nontraditional cookstove. Efforts to improve health and abate environmental harm by promoting nontraditional cookstoves may be more successful by designing and disseminating nontraditional cookstoves with features valued more highly by users, such as reduction of operating costs, even when those features are not directly related to the cookstoves' health and environmental impacts.consumer demand experiments | technology adoption | development economics B iomass combustion with traditional cookstoves is the primary cause in developing countries of indoor air pollution (1), a major global health hazard (1-4). A conservative estimate suggests that exposure to indoor smoke produced by household solidfuel combustion is responsible for nearly 3% of the global disease burden and 4% of the disease burden in the high-mortality developing regions of the world (5, 6). Beyond health impact, traditional cookstoves have substantial environmental consequences as well. Traditional cookstoves are inefficient, harnessing only 5-15% of biomass energy (7). As a result, users collect large quantities of fuel from surrounding fields and forestlands, potentially decreasing agricultural productivity and contributing to forest degradation (8,9). Traditional cookstoves also contribute to global warming (10). Incomplete combustion releases heat-trapping pollutants, including methane and black carbon, which have a greater global warming impact than carbon dioxide does per unit of carbon emitted (11,12). Unsustainable harvesting of biomass fuel compounds this problem because carbon dioxide emitted during combustion is not sequestered by subsequent plant growth.Despite these negative effects, half of the world's population and 75% of South Asians continue to burn solid fuels in inefficient traditional cookstoves for cooking and heating (13,14). Many governments and development organizations have attempted to combat indoor air pollution by disseminating cleaner-burning cookstoves (15), but the adoption and use of these nontraditional cookstoves in the developing world has, with few exceptions, remained disappointingly low (16). [The primary exception is China (1...

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“…The intense use of forest resource has put woody species in different regions of the world at risk (Dahdouh-Guebas et al 2000;Medeiros et al 2011;Walters 2005). In various studies, it has been found that countries with large rural populations make greater use of wood for heat and cooking fuel (Miah et al 2003;Moran-Taylor and Taylor 2010;Ogunkunle and Oladele 2004). Bio-energy is therefore nested at the intersection of three of the world's great challenges-energy security, climate change and poverty reduction-and has received an enormous amount of attention in the past few years (FAO 2007).…”

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Fuelwood consumption patterns by semi-nomadic pastoralist community and its implication on conservation of Corbett Tiger Reserve, India

Hussain

Dasgupta

Bargali³

2016

Energ. Ecol. Environ.

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The local folk of Himalaya have natural coexistence with the forests and depend on these bounty natural resources for their livelihood. The present study was carried out on semi-nomadic pastoralist for the study of forest use patterns. The main source of livelihood was found to be homogeneous (pastoralism) within each settlement. The study records 26 tree species preferred for fuelwood consumption. Overall average fuelwood consumption was 20.09 ± 0.7 kg day -1 family -1 . The average per capita fuelwood consumption was 2.77 kg day -1 . Average fuelwood consumption by very large families is significantly higher than small families. The principal component analysis explain lopping, extraction and anthropogenic activities for biomass extraction as a major factor of disturbance in forests. We also examined the present forest wood consumption rate and its implications in terms of potential deforestation and emission of greenhouse gases. The findings in the paper could form the basis for designing appropriate technologies and management policies in the region.

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Biomass fuel use by the rural households in Chittagong region, Bangladesh

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Domestic use of biomass fuel in the rural Meghna floodplain areas of Bangladesh

Domestic use of biomass fuel in the rural Meghna floodplain areas of Bangladesh

Low demand for nontraditional cookstove technologies

Fuelwood consumption patterns by semi-nomadic pastoralist community and its implication on conservation of Corbett Tiger Reserve, India

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