THE IMPACT OF FUEL WOOD SAVING MIRT STOVE; IN THE CASE OF GIZ-ECO: ENERGY PROJECT IN ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA

Abstract

The use of forest biomass for energy, especially for cooking by traditional stoves takes significant share in depleting the forest. The preponderate use of household energy in Ethiopia is for cooking and out of the total biomass used at household level 60% has been for baking ’Injera’(Oromiya Mines and Energy Bureau,1995). This large share goes to baking “Injera” due to the wide use traditional open- fire stoves that are less efficient and more fuel consuming. The objective of this paper is to indicate that traditional three- stone “Injera” baking stove is inefficient and leads to forest destruction and desertification, assess the importance of Mirt stove for the improvement of social and economical status of the peoples of the country, identify the beneficial aspect of Mirt Injera stove on biomass sustainable utilization of Ethiopia and assess the intensity of rural people utilization of Mirt Injera stove for reduction of over exploitation of the rest resource. Secondary data will be collected using review of various reports, case studies and other relevant documents concerning traditional and improved stoves and gathering secondary data from GIZ and Rural Energy Improvement Office. In the case of primary data collection methods, total customers of 37 and 40 from 2012 and 2013 respectively will take from Adids Ababa City of different Kebeles of the district. Out of the total population of each year, 8 from 2012 and 7 from 2013 a total 15 sample respondents will select and interview using personal recorder depending on the semi- structure interview formats prepared by manually.