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Podcast: Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters
Episode: How to Increase the Use of Clean Cookstoves and Solar Lighting in Rural Ethiopia and Beyond
Description: In rural Ethiopia women are more likely than men to collect firewood and cook over stoves that emit harmful smoke. Meanwhile, men are more likely than women to control how household income is spent. Accordingly, men are less likely than women to purchase improved cooking stoves that emit fewer pollutants while cooking. This is the case in rural Ethiopia and also across rural communities throughout much of the developing world.  Dr. Sied Hassan, sought to dig deeper into this phenomenon. He designed an inventive field experiment to uncover the wil...