Access to clean cooking can improve the population’s health by almost 4% by 2030

Zambia’s dependence on biomass fuels for heating and cooking poses a serious problem. The incomplete combustion of these solid fuels in inefficient cooking stoves and devices causes premature death and acute respiratory, cardiovascular, and circulatory diseases. (Smith and Pillarisetti 2017, Shupler et al 2018) It is estimated that between 1.6 and 3.8 million people die annually from household air pollution …

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