The Issues

Women & Livelihoods

Reliance on inefficient cookstoves and fuels leads to health (emphysema, cataracts, cancer, heart disease, etc.) and economic burdens that disproportionately impact women and girls, particularly because cooking and fuel collection largely remain a woman’s responsibility.
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Health

Chronic exposure to smoke from traditional cooking practices is one of the world’s biggest – but least well-known – killers. Penetrating deep into the lungs of its victims, the smoke causes a range of deadly chronic and acute health effects such as child pneumonia, lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and heart disease, as well as low birth-weight in children born to mothers whose pregnancies are spent breathing smoke from open fires and traditional cookstoves.
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Environment

Nearly 3 billion people each day cook on open fires or rudimentary cookstoves that are fueled by coal or solid biomass such as wood. Reliance on polluting cookstoves and fuels leads to a wide variety of environmental problems. Using solid biomass as fuels depletes forests, a condition that weakens the soil causing mudslides and destroying agricultural land; and jeopardizes human health and household and community air quality through toxic smoke emissions.
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