Determinants of Household Decision to Adopt Fuel Efficient Technology: Evidence from Improved ("MIRT") Stove Technology a Case in Adea Woreda, East Shoa Zone
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2007-03
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A.A.U
Abstract
Energy is vital for economic development for both developed and developing countries. The need
for energy in developed nations is a question of comfort but for developing nations it is a
question of survival and poverty. The needs' for energy in developing countries meet from
biomass resource. these resources are heavily utilized and it has adverse effect on the
environment and natural resource. And it is directly used by inefficient stoves; this direct burning
of biomass has impact on the health of the poor (especially women and children) , income,
household environment and resource
Improvement was made but success of many interventions in dissemination of efficient improved
stoves in both rural and urban settings are not successful due to top down and supply nature of
the programs, technology centered and lack (if compatibility with the beneficiary groups.
Therefore, those factors indicate the need for existing research to start from the target group not
on the technology. The main objective of this study is to analyze the determinant factors that
affect household decision to adopt fuel efficient improved stove technology and to acquire
information about the technology. Evidence taken from improved (‘Mirt ") stove technology in
Adea" wereda, both in rural and urban settings. The study take in to consideration the socioeconomic,
demographic, dwelling characteristic, information diffusion and attitudinal variables
of the households in the study area.
The increasing scarcity of biomass and the increment of the number of people who use biomass,
particularly fire wood, threaten the capability of the country even to maintain the already
existing low income and living standard (if the people. therefore, the need for adopting improved
‘mirt" stove not only enables the households to use fuel efficiently, but also enable them to curb
the problems caused by using traditional and open fire stoves as well as biomass energy related
problems. [I can also mitigate the impacts on the users' health. and the overall environment and
natural resources brought by using those traditional and open fire stoves.
With two conditional equations, that is information and adoption equation. This study result
reveals that improvement in socio economic conditions of the people have positive impact in
acquisition and access information in urban and rural households. Moreover, the result supports
the "energy Ladder" hypothesis as theoretical and functional useful framework to explain the
fuel use and improved technology adoption in the study area. The finding also reveals socioeconomic
improvements also have direct and Significant impact on adoption decision. This
.finding also reinforce the role of government and non government organization to playa major
role in provision and diffusion of information and enhal1ce the adoption decision of the people to
protect the country natural resource and to resolve environmental problems that arise du e to
excessive utilization (if biomass resources.
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Improved stove, information, adoption and "energy ladder"