Resilient clean cooking: Maintaining household clean cooking in Ecuador during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT: Decades of government subsidies for LPG and electricity have facilitated near-universal clean cooking access and use in Ecuador, placing the nation ahead of most other peer low- and middle-income countries. The widespread socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic has threatened the resilience of clean cooking systems globally, including by altering households' ability to purchase clean fuels and policymakers' considerations about continuing subsidy programs. As such, assessing the resilience of clean cooking in Ecuador during the pandemic can offer important lessons for the international community, especially other countries looking to ensure resilient transitions to clean cooking. We study household energy use patterns using interviews, newspaper reports, government data on househol

SUBMITTER: Valarezo A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10070780 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature