There has only been an 18 per cent drop in households using this method in 20 years. OLD IS GOLDSeventy per cent of households in Kenya were found to be using some type of wood stove as either their primary or secondary cook stove. “Further, the study findings confirm that wood fuel (charcoal and firewood) is the most commonly used primary cooking fuel, with 75 per cent of Kenyan households using it. LPG GASOn a positive note, over the last two decades (1999-2018), the number of households using LPG gas has increased about six times from 600,000 to 3.7 million. This is especially telling for Kenya whose government seeks to have 100 per cent of the population having access to modern cooking solutions by 2030.

Source: Daily Nation November 11, 2019 08:02 UTC