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CHAPTERLicense Agreement Concerning Inclusion of Doctoral Thesis in the Institutional Repository of the University of Leiden • May 4th, 2022
We most welcome the comment by Thakur, van Schayck and Boudewijns1 on our article on the effects and acceptability of implementing improved cookstoves.2 Adoption rates of improved cookstoves by local communities are often strikingly low. The authors underline the urge to advance cookstove implementation strategies, and reinforce the approach used in the FRESH AIR project.2 They highlight several important factors to increase adoption success and call for further research on the topic. We want to build on this comment by reflecting on decades of substantial discrepancies between the disappointing adoption rates of improved cookstoves, and the subsequent failure to adapt implementation strategies accordingly. We argue that it is not necessarily the lack of evidence that impedes the success of implementation strategies for improved cookstoves. Moreover, it is the lack of use of the evidence by implementors. We propose several ideas for overcoming this evidence-to-practice gap.
