The Hidden Price of Firewood: How Cooking Fuel Is Costing Africa Its Forests, Its Health and Its Future
Every evening, in millions of African homes, a fire is lit. It cooks the family meal, and it quietly takes something in return: forest cover, clean air, hours of a girl's school day and, too often, a life. For nearly a billion people on the continent, firewood and charcoal remain the everyday cost of eating. At Rutnak Pearl Development Foundation, we believe it is time to count that cost honestly.The scale of the problemRecent figures from the...