Deconstructing the (un)affordability of clean cooking fuels through a randomized trial in rural Tanzania

Nature Energy, Published online: 03 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41560-025-01778-wClean cooking fuels can be unaffordable. A year-long randomized control trial in Tanzania finds that a lockbox intervention along with behavioural nudging to encourage savings modestly increased liquefied petroleum gas use but did not lead to exclusive adoption, and that gendered financial constraints explain these results.

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Deconstructing the (un)affordability of clean cooking fuels through a randomized trial in rural Tanzania

Nature Energy, Published online: 03 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41560-025-01778-wClean cooking fuels can be unaffordable. A year-long randomized control trial in Tanzania finds that a lockbox intervention along with behavioural nudging to encourage savings modestly increased liquefied petroleum gas use but did not lead to exclusive adoption, and that gendered financial constraints explain these results.