Rampant use of wood fuel claims more lives than road accidents, warns CS
A resident of Rodi Kopany, Homa Bay County, cooks using the three-stone cooking fire. Wood fuel exposes people to health risks. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP
Given that many households also use multiple solutions and might have other cookers, about 64.7 per cent of households use wood as their primary cooking fuel.
Over the last two decades (1999-2018), the number of households using LPG has increased about six-fold from 600,000 to 3.7 million.
The traditional three-stone cook stove remains the most commonly used cooking technology in Kenya with 58.1 per cent of the population using it, according to the Kenya Cooking Sector Report, and the Cabinet Secretary (CS) in charge of energy has asserted that the death toll from fuelwood use is higher than that of road accidents.
An overview of the supply and demand of household cooking solutions, commissioned by the Clean Cooking Association of Kenya in collaboration with the Energy ministry, which was released last Tuesday, shows that more than half of Kenya’s homes use the traditional cook stove.
