Cook Stove

• Around 3 billion people still cook using solid fuels (e.g. wood, crop wastes, charcoal, coal and dung) and kerosene in open fires and inefficient stoves. Most of these people are poor, and live in low- and middle-income countries.
• These cooking practices are inefficient, and use fuels and technologies that produce high levels of household air pollution with a range of health-damaging pollutants, including small soot particles that penetrate deep into the lungs.
• Each year, close to 4 million people die prematurely from illness attributable to household air pollution from inefficient cooking practices using polluting stoves paired with solid fuels and kerosene.

• Agro - residues of any type can be converted into fuel for clean and efficient cooking at a fraction of the cost of LPG (which in any case is realistically not affordable on sustained basis). Village level livelihood opportunity and entrepreneurships (self-help groups), uniform, consistent smokeless, high energy fuel can be made and used.
• Transform the rural landscape and lives of the most under privileged and deprived persons. Increase the life span of those who adopt this and prevent pre-mature mortality of infants and women.