Every day half of the world's population have their meals cooked on traditional biomass cookstoves. Traditional cookstoves result in tremendous health, economic, environmental, and daily-life burdens that are mostly beard by women and children.
Over 1.9 million people die every year because of the smoke and fumes of their cooking fires; 85% of them are women and children.
Households can spend up to 40% of their income, or family members up to 20h per week, to pay for or collect woodfuel.
Over 4 million tons of wood are burned for cooking and 4 million tons of CO2 rejected into the atmosphere everyday.
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