Cultural, Social, and Environmental Factors in Implementing Clean Cooking Technologies in Tanzania

After 40 years of attempting to implement cleaner cooking technologies (Batchelor et al, 2019), successes have been muted, leaving approximately 2.8 billion people (IRENA, 2020) to spend hours gathering biofuel and enduring smoke-related harm due to cooking with fire. Despite the years of research examining reasons for the failures, there do not appear to be enough studies of the social, cultural, or environmental factors that could predict the success or failure of a given project. By researching previous projects, the cooking cultures and energy deficits of certain countries, and three solar cooking technologies, insights and questions will be developed for the interviews with the East African diaspora living in Calgary. Together, these will yield a framework through which clean cooking technologies may be effectively implemented in Tanzania.

Faculty Supervisor:

Craig Gerlach

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Partner:

Fig Tree Foundation

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of Calgary

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