Our project partner, EcoSafi, is a clean cooking fuel utility company in East Africa with a goal of eliminating the use of charcoal as a cooking fuel—replacing charcoal cookstoves with more efficient gasifiers that use clean-burning pellet fuel made from waste biomass.

About 28% of the global population cook over open fires. In Africa, that equates to nearly four in five Africans using wood and charcoal on inefficient stoves, or three stone fires. By replacing these with more efficient cooking methods, Ecosafi, the Better Cooking Company in Nairobi…Read More

EcoSafi is tackling the environmental and health issues associated with traditional cooking methods that rely on charcoal and other polluting fuels. Price explains that many families, even those living in urban settings with modern amenities, still resort to lighting charcoal fires multiple times a day for cooking. Recognizing the need for a better alternative, EcoSafi […]

Agreements have been signed with producers offering clean cookstoves based on pellet and solar/biomass technology to accelerate access to clean cooking solutions across Kenya.  Read More

Ecosafi’s innovations and business model centers around two key components: the fuel and the cookers. The EcoMoto fuel is a pellet briquette that uses 100 per cent waste biomass (made of compressed materials like sawdust and agricultural remains) to burn hotter and cleaner than traditional fuels and stoves. The cookers are also engineered for high […]