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Examining what it takes to put food on your plate

The Food Chain examines the business, science and cultural significance of food, and what it takes to put food on your plate.

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The Food Chain: How to stop cooking killing

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07/12/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - The Food Chain, How to stop cooking killing

Millions die each year because of their stoves, so what's being done about it?

It’s estimated that more than 2 billion people use polluting stoves - with severe consequences for their health. 

The World Health Organisation says 3.2 million people die each year as a result of the household air pollution they cause. 

Ruth Alexander finds out why this problem – which also harms the environment – is so difficult to solve. 

She speaks to Dr Fatih Birol of the International Energy Agency in Paris; Sophie Odupoy from Koko Networks in Kenya; Naramath Lucas Kariongi  from the Rural Communities Support Organisation in Tanzania; and Dr Mike Clifford of Nottingham University’s engineering department in the UK.  

If you would like to get in touch with the show, please email: thefoodchain@bbc.co.uk. 

Producers: Hannah Bewley and Rumella Dasgupta.

(Picture: a clay stove with a wood fire lit. Credit: BBC)

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