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datestamp: 2015-12-18 06:12:51
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contact_email: Library-ICRISAT@CGIAR.ORG
creators_name: Orr, A
creators_name: Kambombo, B
creators_name: Roth, C
creators_name: Harris, D
creators_name: Doyle, V
icrisatcreators_name: Orr, A
icrisatcreators_name: Harris, D
affiliation: ICRISAT (Nairobi)
affiliation: Concern Universal (Blantyre)
affiliation: Food and Fuel Consultants, An der Gruengesweide (Eschborn)
country: Kenya
country: Malawi
country: Germany
title: Adoption of Integrated Food-Energy Systems: improved cookstoves and pigeonpea in southern Malawi
ispublished: pub
subjects: s1.2
divisions: D6
crps: crp1.14
full_text_status: restricted
keywords: Integrated Food-Energy Systems, IFES, Sub-Saharan Africa, Improved Cookstoves, Firewood, Pigeonpea, Fuelwood, Malawi, Household Survey
note: We wish to thank the farm households that participated in the household survey, Said Silim and N.V.P.R. Ganga Rao for supplying information on pigeonpea, and three anonymous reviewers whose comments greatly improved the quality of this paper. The authors are responsible for all remaining errors and omissions.
abstract: 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.
date: 2015-04
date_type: published
publication: Experimental Agriculture
volume: 51
number: 02
publisher: Cambridge University Press
pagerange: 191-209
refereed: TRUE
issn: 0014-4797
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0014479714000222
related_url_url: https://scholar.google.co.in/scholar?hl=en&q=ADOPTION+OF+INTEGRATED+FOOD-ENERGY+SYSTEMS%3A+IMPROVED+COOKSTOVES+AND+PIGEONPEA+IN+SOUTHERN+MALAWI&btnG=
related_url_type: pub
citation:   Orr, A and Kambombo, B and Roth, C and Harris, D and Doyle, V  (2015) Adoption of Integrated Food-Energy Systems: improved cookstoves and pigeonpea in southern Malawi.  Experimental Agriculture, 51 (02).  pp. 191-209.  ISSN 0014-4797     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/9189/1/ADOPTION%20OF%20INTEGRATED%20FOOD-ENERGY%20SYSTEMS-%20IMPRO.pdf