Journal
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Volume 76, Issue -, Pages 115-125Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2014.10.070
Keywords
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Biogas International; Biogas cookstove; Bioenergy; Flexi-biogas system (FBS)
Funding
- International Fund for Agricultural Development as part of Initiative for Mainstreaming Initiative (IMI) Project Making Biogas Portable: Renewable Technologies for a Greener Future
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This study investigates the benefits and challenges facing an innovative biogas system being commercialized in Kenya by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Biogas International. From 2011 to 2014, IFAD and Biogas International have distributed 500 flexi-biogas system (FBS) units to rural Kenyan households. Based on a comprehensive review of project documents and the peer-reviewed literature, supplemented with in-country research interviews, this study details the history, benefits, and challenges facing the dissemination of these FBS units. We highlight how FBS devices have the potential to address climate-energy-agriculture vulnerabilities and also generate income and improve social resilience. We conclude that although the benefits of FBS adoption cut across dimensions, scales, and sectors, the policies needed to support them must be concomitantly synergistic and multidimensional. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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