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Women in rural Africa spend at least five hours every single day making meals for their households under smoky conditions as a result of using the inefficient 3-stone fire stoves.
In addition travel at least 36 Km a week to scavenge for firewood and this also exposes them to risks like rape and accidents. All these effects deny women and girls critical productive time either for school or for engaging in other income generating activities.
Use of improved cook stoves can drastically save household incomes, create extra productive time, save them frequent distances to forests and exposures to high indoor air emissions. Wood stoves like gasifier stoves add value because they further utilize agricultural residues like maize cobs and cassava stems that are otherwise rarely used for cooking.
Women in rural Africa spend
Submitted by Nolbert Muhumuza on Tue, 22/11/2016 - 12:28 Permalink
Women in rural Africa spend at least five hours every single day making meals for their households under smoky conditions as a result of using the inefficient 3-stone fire stoves.
In addition travel at least 36 Km a week to scavenge for firewood and this also exposes them to risks like rape and accidents. All these effects deny women and girls critical productive time either for school or for engaging in other income generating activities.
Use of improved cook stoves can drastically save household incomes, create extra productive time, save them frequent distances to forests and exposures to high indoor air emissions. Wood stoves like gasifier stoves add value because they further utilize agricultural residues like maize cobs and cassava stems that are otherwise rarely used for cooking.