Publication: Clean and Improved Cooking in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Landscape Report
Date
2014-11
ISSN
Published
2014-11
Author(s)
World Bank Group
Abstract
Evidence from the most recent World
Health Organization (WHO) survey on the global burden of
disease shows that nearly 600,000 Africans die annually and
millions more suffer from chronic illnesses caused by air
pollution from inefficient and dangerous traditional cooking
fuels and stoves. This tragic and avoidable first-order
public health crisis disproportionately harms women and
children. Moreover, cooking with wood, charcoal, crop waste,
dung, coal, and potentially dangerous and polluting modern
fuels, such as kerosene, also imposes tremendous direct
costs on economies and households in Sub-Saharan Africa
(SSA) and contributes to a wide range of negative
environmental and climate change effects.This overview
report, prepared in support of the World Bank’s Africa Clean
Cooking Energy Solutions (ACCES) initiative, builds on
earlier reports from the World Bank and the Global Alliance
for Clean Cookstoves (GACC). The report establishes a
baseline for the SSA cooking landscape and offers an
overview of emerging opportunities to encourage increased
investment in clean and improved cooking businesses across
the region. This report covers the full range of clean and
improved cooking solutions in SSA that can enhance the fuel
efficiency and emissions performance of traditional
technologies, each varying widely in terms of fuel
feedstock, design, construction materials, methods of
production, and harm mitigation potential.
Citation
“World Bank Group. 2014. Clean and Improved Cooking in Sub-Saharan Africa : A Landscape Report. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/22521 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”