Malawi is set to benefit from the International Energy Agency IEA summit on Clean Cooking in Africa which has just ended in Paris, France.
While 96 percent of households rely on wood fuels as their primary source of cooking, charcoal continues to be the main contributor to Malawi’s deforestation.
Minister of Natural Resources and Climate Change Michael Usi told MBC that at the world leaders’ summit on Clean Cooking in Africa, a company known as Burn Manufacturing has shown interest in coming to Malawi and establish itself where it will be making modern but affordable stoves for rural masses.
The minister said the company has also committed itself to distributing 2 million cook stoves to rural communities as part of its contribution to curbing environmental degradation in Malawi.
Reacting to the story, 45-year-old Naomi Mwale of Milepa in Chiradzulu district who depends on wood fuel for cooking in an area where almost all forests are bare, said this is good news.
Statistics indicate nearly four in five Africans still cook their meals over open fires and traditional stoves, using wood, charcoal, animal dung, and other polluting fuels.
