title: Beer, Wood, and Welfare--The Impact of Improved Stove Use Among Dolo-Beer Breweries.
abstract: Local beer breweries in Burkina Faso absorb a considerable amount of urban woodfuel demand. We assess the woodfuel savings caused by the adoption of improved brewing stoves by these micro-breweries and estimate the implied welfare effects through the woodfuel market on private households as well as the environmental effect. We find substantial wood savings among the breweries, 36% to 38% if they fully switch to an improved stove. In absolute amounts, they save about 0.176 kg of fuelwood per litre of dolo brewed. These savings imply huge reductions in CO2-emissions and reduce the overall demand for woodfuel, which is predominantly used by the poorer strata for cooking purposes. We provide estimates for the price decrease that might result from this and show that the urban poor are likely to benefit. Thus, the intervention under study is an example for a green growth intervention with pro-poor welfare gains--something green growth strategies should look for.
authors.affiliation: Department of Economics, University of Passau, Passau, Germany; International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Grimm
authors.affiliation: Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI), Essen, Germany; The African Microeconomic Research Unit (AMERU), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
authors.forename: Jörg
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Peters
mesh_terms: D016902:Air Pollution, Indoor / Q000517:prevention & control*; D001515:Beer; D002050:Burkina Faso; D002248:Carbon Monoxide; D003296:Cooking; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D014934:Wood
chemical_list: D002248:Carbon Monoxide