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How To Improve Access To Poverty In Zimbabwe

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Zimbabwe has been under economic crisis for almost two decades now with no economic development. This fact means that meeting the growing demand for energy would be a serious challenge of our government. Energy access or lack of it has direct implications for livelihoods, health and environmental sustainability. In poor households across the country, cooking and lighting often accounts over 90 percent of total energy need. Ensuring access to clean, safe and environmentally sustainable energy for poor household cooking is utmost challenge not just for Zimbabwe but the rest of developing countries. Improving access to modern energy is a critical catalyst to poverty eradication. Energy poverty is the worst poverty because by nature, energy is a key enabler for any form of development. Housing and shelter problems can never be fully addressed without addressing issues of access to affordable and reliable energy services. Furthermore, issues of empowerment, women development and health are …show more content…

The other primary energy source for cooking is LPG at 35.94%. Most households cited issues like convenience, affordability and accessibility as their reasons for choosing a particular energy form. Safety issues were also raised as reasons for avoiding certain sources. This was mainly highlighted in relation to the use of LPG. Furthermore, the survey revealed that people in these communities does not depend solely on one source of fuel for cooking. In certain cases the type of fuel used is determined by so many factors like the weather, time, type of food being cooked and the season. For example open fire and charcoal stoves are mainly used during the day, when cooking foods that take long to cook like dried bean and when it is not raining as most of them cook from outside the

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