Adoption of Integrated Food-Energy Systems: Improved Cookstoves and Pigeonpea in Southern Malawi
We analyse the adoption of an Integrated Food-Energy System (IFES) in southern Malawi. The IFES combined the improved cookstove (chitetezo mbaula in Chichewa), designed to reduce demand for fuelwood, with the pigeonpea variety Mthawajuni, which increased both food supply and supply of fuelwood from...
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| author | Orr, Alistair Kambombo, Blessings Roth, Christopher Harris, Dave Doyle, Vincent |
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| description | We analyse the adoption of an Integrated Food-Energy System (IFES) in southern Malawi. The IFES combined the improved cookstove (chitetezo mbaula in Chichewa), designed to reduce demand for fuelwood, with the pigeonpea variety Mthawajuni, which increased both food supply and supply of fuelwood from pigeonpea stems. Adoption of the improved cookstove was found to be higher among households that were better off and where women had greater control over decision-making. However, adoption of the IFES was not associated with reduced demand for fuelwood from forests and hills or reduced frequency of collection. IFES adopters might have high fuelwood consumption because they were better off, but fuelwood consumption in better-off households did not differ significantly between IFES adopters and non-adopters. Pigeonpea increased food supply for adopter households, including children aged less than five years. Consequently, the IFES has had mixed results, improving food supply but not reducing demand for fuelwood. Households ranked early maturity, fuelwood and yield as the three most important reasons for preferring Mthawajuni over other varieties of pigeonpea. The plant breeding programme for pigeonpea in Malawi should evaluate improved varieties not only for earliness and grain yield but also for the production of fuelwood. Improved varieties with desirable market traits have had limited success in the absence of reliable markets and price incentives. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1709162025-02-19T14:36:32Z Adoption of Integrated Food-Energy Systems: Improved Cookstoves and Pigeonpea in Southern Malawi Orr, Alistair Kambombo, Blessings Roth, Christopher Harris, Dave Doyle, Vincent energy pigeon peas stoves We analyse the adoption of an Integrated Food-Energy System (IFES) in southern Malawi. The IFES combined the improved cookstove (chitetezo mbaula in Chichewa), designed to reduce demand for fuelwood, with the pigeonpea variety Mthawajuni, which increased both food supply and supply of fuelwood from pigeonpea stems. Adoption of the improved cookstove was found to be higher among households that were better off and where women had greater control over decision-making. However, adoption of the IFES was not associated with reduced demand for fuelwood from forests and hills or reduced frequency of collection. IFES adopters might have high fuelwood consumption because they were better off, but fuelwood consumption in better-off households did not differ significantly between IFES adopters and non-adopters. Pigeonpea increased food supply for adopter households, including children aged less than five years. Consequently, the IFES has had mixed results, improving food supply but not reducing demand for fuelwood. Households ranked early maturity, fuelwood and yield as the three most important reasons for preferring Mthawajuni over other varieties of pigeonpea. The plant breeding programme for pigeonpea in Malawi should evaluate improved varieties not only for earliness and grain yield but also for the production of fuelwood. Improved varieties with desirable market traits have had limited success in the absence of reliable markets and price incentives. 2015-04 2025-01-29T12:57:28Z 2025-01-29T12:57:28Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/170916 en Limited Access Cambridge University Press Orr, A. A, Kambombo, B., Roth, C, Harris, D, and Doyle, V (2014). Adoption of Integrated Food-Energy Systems: Improved Cookstoves and Pigeonpea in Southern Malawi. Experimental Agriculture 51(2): 191 - 209. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0014479714000222 |
| spellingShingle | energy pigeon peas stoves Orr, Alistair Kambombo, Blessings Roth, Christopher Harris, Dave Doyle, Vincent Adoption of Integrated Food-Energy Systems: Improved Cookstoves and Pigeonpea in Southern Malawi |
| title | Adoption of Integrated Food-Energy Systems: Improved Cookstoves and Pigeonpea in Southern Malawi |
| title_full | Adoption of Integrated Food-Energy Systems: Improved Cookstoves and Pigeonpea in Southern Malawi |
| title_fullStr | Adoption of Integrated Food-Energy Systems: Improved Cookstoves and Pigeonpea in Southern Malawi |
| title_full_unstemmed | Adoption of Integrated Food-Energy Systems: Improved Cookstoves and Pigeonpea in Southern Malawi |
| title_short | Adoption of Integrated Food-Energy Systems: Improved Cookstoves and Pigeonpea in Southern Malawi |
| title_sort | adoption of integrated food energy systems improved cookstoves and pigeonpea in southern malawi |
| topic | energy pigeon peas stoves |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/170916 |
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