The Nigeria eCookbook
This eCookbook builds on the Controlled Cooking Test (CCT) study carried out by Tovero Energy Ltd.
Abstract
This edition of the Nigeria eCookbook is a publication by the Modern Energy Cooking Service Programme of Loughborough University, and forms part of its series of eCookbooks.
Cooking with polluting biomass wood has become one of the biggest sources of household air pollution in the Global South leading to increasing deaths caused by diseases such as pneumonia, asthma, lung cancer, acute respiratory infections, etc. In Nigeria, about 66% of the population depend on wood as a source of cooking fuel. After Malaria and HIV/AIDS, smoke from open fire is the next biggest killer as it results in over 95,666 deaths annually in Nigeria. As per its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) commitments, the Nigeria Energy Transition Plan 2021 advocates the replacement of traditional cooking fuels particularly firewood and charcoal with cleaner biomass fuels and LPG as a transition, and with electric and biogas stoves to reduce emissions. Cooking with electricity is unarguably the cleanest form of cooking.
This eCookbook builds on the Controlled Cooking Test (CCT) study carried out by Tovero Energy Ltd and published by Modern Energy Cooking Services.
Citation
Tovero Energy Ltd. The Nigeria eCookbook 2024