HEALTHIER COOKING — COMBATING DEFORESTATION
Clean cooking program
8
Project countries
~2100
Clean cooking appliances monitored
15
Partnerships
Only about 17% of people in Africa have access to clean cooking; most rely on biomass and charcoal, harming health and driving deforestation.
That work reaches dozens of partners and thousands of households, businesses, and institutions, and covers polluting fossil cooking as well as biomass. Alongside remote monitoring, data collection, and analysis, we built the Appliance Demand Platform to aggregate appliance energy data and reveal demand and infrastructure insights.
The research itself examines induction adoption, tariff and pricing effects on appliance use, user behavior and grid stability, links to national climate commitments, RBF program management, and strategies to improve affordability and scale.