Emerging Cooking Solutions

The future of sustainable cooking.

Cooking over open, smoky fires using wood and charcoal still causes more deaths today than malaria, tuberculosis, and AIDS combined, and has a climate impact equal to that of the entire aviation industry. Emerging Cooking Solutions, based in Lund with subsidiaries in Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique, manufactures and distributes efficient, healthy cooking stoves and sustainable wood pellet fuel.

In exchange for purchasing our pellet fuel, users can lease a stove that is connected to a digital platform. This allows us to measure how the stoves are used and rent them to those who need them the most. With our stoves, users enjoy cleaner cooking, halve their fuel costs, and save time.

Entrepreneurship driving change

The final step of our distribution is managed by local sales agents, many of whom are young people. Our business model enables them to build their own distribution businesses. In some cases, they even create a larger network with their own sellers.

We have also noticed that many of our stoves are not just used to cook meals for the family, but also for cooking and selling street food, such as samosas and fritters. From our business concept and product, entrepreneurship is born, offering more people the opportunity to secure an income and create a future for themselves.

The year in brief

This year, Zambia experienced an historically poor rainy season, resulting in failed crops and reduced electricity production from the Kariba Dam. This has increased the demand for charcoal, but also for our stoves.

In addition to delivering as many stoves as we could, we have collaborated with the Zambian government to develop a new carbon credit programme under Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement. We expect to become one of the first projects in the world to generate ITMOS carbon credits, which could play a key role in the green transition.

We have also started a tree nursery and will plant 100,000 fast-growing, nitrogen-fixing trees before the end of the year. The goal is to contract small-scale farmers to cultivate the trees. When the trees are pruned, we get biomass that can be used for pellet production. If the project succeeds, we plan to scale up the plantations significantly. Our goal in Zambia alone is to reach one million households. This would equate to a reduction in greenhouse gases twice the size of the total climate footprint of the cities of Malmö and Lund combined.

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Emerging Cooking Solutions

Cooking over open, smoky fires using wood and charcoal still causes more deaths today than malaria, tuberculosis, and AIDS combined, and has a climate impact equal to that of the entire aviation industry. Emerging Cooking Solutions, based in Lund with subsidiaries in Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique, manufactures and distributes efficient, healthy cooking stoves and sustainable wood pellet fuel.

In exchange for purchasing our pellet fuel, users can lease a stove that is connected to a digital platform. This allows us to measure how the stoves are used and rent them to those who need them the most. With our stoves, users enjoy cleaner cooking, halve their fuel costs, and save time.

Yearbook 2024 /Involvement /Emerging Cooking Solutions

Yearbook 2024 /Involvement /Emerging Cooking Solutions