Long way to Kenya’s dream of clean energy as wood is chosen over LPG
A woman carries firewood at Nairutia trading centre in Kieni on January 23, 2017. About 65 per cent of households in Kenya use wood as their primary cooking fuel, even with the negative health and environmental impact such as respiratory and heart diseases, lung cancer, and eye irritation. PHOTO | JOSEPH KANYI | NMG
The traditional three-stone open firewood cooking method remains the most common in Kenya, with 58 per cent of the population using it, says the Kenya Cooking Sector Report.
And according to surveys on Kenya’s cooking energy mix, 70 per cent of households in Kenya use some type of woodstove as either their primary or secondary cookstove. Majority of these users, at 92 per cent, live in rural areas.
