The Value of Clean Cooking
Switching to clean cooking – using modern stoves and fuels –
transforms lives by improving health, protecting the climate and the
environment, empowering women, and helping reduce poverty.
The Value of Clean Cooking
Switching to clean cooking – using modern stoves and fuels – transforms lives by improving health, protecting the climate and the environment, empowering women, and helping reduce poverty.
Why we need Clean Cooking
Cooking without clean stoves and fuels releases toxic pollutants into the environment and endangers health. Indoor air pollution is the leading cause of deaths among one of the most vulnerable population groups globally.
Clean Cooking and the Sustainable Development Goals
Clean cooking solutions directly contribute to achieving multiple UN Sustainable Development Goals, creating lasting impact across communities.
1
No
Poverty
No Poverty
Clean cooking is necessary to leading healthy and productive lives, and it also helps consumers save time and money.
2
Zero
Hunger
Zero Hunger
Clean cooking reduces fuel needs, thus reducing the burden on families to collect, buy, or trade other resources, such as food, for fuel.
3
Good Health
and Wellbeing
Good Health & Well Being
Clean cooking improves health by lowering the burden of disease from exposure to household air pollution.
4
Quality
Education
Quality Education
Clean cooking can help children, especially girls, stay in school by reducing time spent on cooking and collecting fuel for the household.
5
Gender
Equality
Gender Equality
Clean cooking can reduce the burden of unpaid care work, which remains a major cause of gender inequality.
7
Affordable
& Clean Energy
Affordable & Clean Energy
Clean cooking is essential to addressing energy poverty and ensuring sustainable energy security for billions of people.
8
Decent Work
& Economic Growth
Decent Work & Economic Growth
Energy access enables enhanced productivity and inclusive economic growth. A global clean cooking sector can boost job creation.
11
Sustainable
Cities & Community
Sustainable Cities & Communities
Clean cooking addresses household and ambient air pollution, resource efficiency, and climate vulnerability.
13
Climate
Action
Climate Action
Clean cooking reduces harmful, climate-damaging emissions from burning polluting fuels in inefficient stoves.
15
Life On
Land
Life on Land
Clean cooking reduces the amount of wood required for cooking, thereby reducing environmental degradation and pressure on forest resources.
Ethiopian Context & Challenges
Understanding the complex challenges and opportunities surrounding traditional cooking practices in Ethiopia.
Health Impacts
Inefficient burning of biomass (wood, dung, crop residues) results in incomplete combustion, releasing harmful gases and particulate matter.
Gender Inequality
Women and girls spend hours daily collecting fuel, limiting time for education and income-generating activities.
Environmental Degradation
Heavy demand for firewood and charcoal leads to deforestation, land degradation, soil erosion, and loss of biodiversity
Economic Burden
Buying or collecting biomass fuel represents a significant cost (monetary or in time) for many households.
Inefficiency and High Energy Use
Traditional stoves have low thermal efficiency, meaning a lot of fuel is needed for small outputs.
Cultural and Behavioral Barriers
Deep-rooted cooking traditions and taste preferences often create resistance to new technologies.
Clean Cooking Solutions
Discover innovative, affordable, and culturally appropriate clean cooking technologies designed for Ethiopian households and communities.
Choose from a range of clean cooking solutions tailored to different needs, budgets, and energy resources
Successful Projects
Quality Customers
Trusted Partners
Clean Cooking Solutions
Discover innovative, affordable, and culturally appropriate clean cooking technologies designed for Ethiopian households and communities.
Choose from a range of clean cooking solutions tailored to different needs, budgets, and energy resources
Successful Projects
Quality Customers
Trusted Partners
Technology Categories
Choose from a range of clean cooking solutions tailored to different needs, budgets, and energy resources.
Improved Biomass Stoves
Efficient stoves that reduce fuel consumption and emissions while maintaining traditional cooking practices
Electric Cooking Solutions
Promoting the adoption of electric stoves and induction cooktops to improve efficiency and reduce indoor air pollution.
Biogas Systems
Encouraging the use of household and institutional biogas systems that transform organic waste into clean energy for cooking.
LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) Solutions
Supporting safe and sustainable LPG adoption to offer a cleaner alternative to traditional biomass fuels.
Ethanol Stoves
Clean-burning stoves that use locally produced ethanol as a sustainable alternative to charcoal.
Institutional Cooking Systems
Large-scale clean cooking technologies for schools, hospitals, and community kitchens.