Can improved cooking appliances be adopted in Mali?
Through funding from Energising Development (ENDEV), SNV implements a market development project for improved cooking appliances in Mali. Household cooking in urban and peri-urban settings in Mali is mainly done with charcoal and wood. One of the main barriers to the adoption of Improved Cookstoves (ICS) in Mali is the weak market organisation.
Can improved cookstoves be adopted in Mali?
Household cooking in urban and peri-urban settings in Mali is mainly done with charcoal and wood. One of the main barriers to the adoption of Improved Cookstoves (ICS) in Mali is the weak market organisation. The capacity to produce ICS exists, but as production is mainly done by individual artisans, quality control is challenging.
Can clean cooking be used in Africa?
While there is no commercial market for clean cooking impacts, there are a number of important eforts under way to explore such approaches, with immediate potential application to Africa.
Where are cooking fuels most popular in Africa?
Modern cooking fuels have had the widest reach in Africa in places where governments have injected significant fuel subsidies into the sector. This includes Angola, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, and Senegal in the case of LPG; Nigeria in the case of kerosene; and South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe in the case of electric cooking.