Indoor air pollution is especially deadly for children it is responsible for nearly 50% of pneumonia deaths in children under the age of five. 500,000 of these deaths are from childhood pneumonia. The World Health Organization estimates that more than 4 million people die each year from household air pollution generated by cooking with solid fuels in poorly ventilated spaces. Traditional biomass fuels release emissions that contain pollutants dangerous to health, such as small particles, carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen dioxide, butadiene, formaldehyde, and carcinogens such as benzopyrene and benzene. Smoke and gaseous emissions pour out of burning wood, animal dung, or crop residues, leading to lung disease and respiratory illnesses in women and children. Approximately 60% of African families cook with traditional biomass, a percentage that increases to 90% for Sub-Saharan Africa. More than 3 billion people cook with wood fire worldwide. Because of the inefficient heat production of wood-fired stoves such as this one, women cook indoors for hours each day in poorly ventilated dwellings. 6.3 Government subsidization of petroleum-based fuels and long-term financial impactĬurrent cooking methods in energy poor communities: the problem Biomass fuels and associated risks Ī small boy sits by his mother's traditional wood fuel stove.6.2 Simulation of future market conditions and local purchasing power.6 Pilot studies and financial sustainability.5.1.4 Pilot testing and stove placement.2 The solution: alcohol fuels and clean cookstoves.1.1.2.2 Deforestation and desertification.1 Current cooking methods in energy poor communities: the problem.
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