Pollution from burning dirty fuels for cooking in Africa contributes to 3.7 million premature deaths

In Africa today, four-out-of-five people continue to cook their meals over open fires. Globally, around 2.3 billion people are burning charcoal, wood, animal dung or other polluting fuels to cook their food, with dire impacts on health, gender equality and the environment. Yet clean cooking’s prospects are better than ever, as governments and companies see the economic as well as human potential.

Pollution from burning dirty fuels for cooking contributes to 3.7 million premature deaths annually, with women and children the most vulnerable. The process of cooking on an open fire – which involves collecting fuel like firewood and keeping the fire alight throughout the day – prevents women and girls from accessing education, earning a wage or doing other work that could lead to financial autonomy. Indeed, households without clean cooking spend an average of five hours per day collecting fuel and cooking, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), while demand for firewood and charcoal means that an area the size of Ireland is deforested each year.

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