Changing Paradigms in Clean Cooking

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The latest Comparative Risk Assessment of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) estimates that household air pollution (HAP) from solid cooking fuels imposes the largest environmental health burden in the world among all risk factors examined (Lim et al. 2012). With about 4 million premature deaths annually from both the household exposures and the exposures downwind from household contribution to outdoor air pollution (secondhand cooksmoke), HAP is ranked fourth in the world among all the risk factors, even though only about 40% of the world is directly exposed, those in poor countries cooking with biomass or coal (Smith et al. 2014). …