By Daily Nation
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 cookstove.
There has only been an 18 per cent drop in households using this method in 20 years. In 1999, 76 per cent of households relied entirely on this technology, the report reveals.
Researchers conducting surveys on Kenya’s cooking energy mix found that although the proportion of household users has dropped, the aggregate number has increased from 4.7 million to about 7.3 million households, based on overall population growth.
