Village life, pakistan. Woman cooking food in a stove in a punjabi village

Myanmar (burma) coke burners for domestic fuel drying in a street in mandalay

Cattle dung pressed onto sticks to be sun dried and used as cooking fuel, Nalvara village, Assam, India, Asia

Indian woman villagers patting cow dung mound for cooking fuel at Kutalpura Village in Rajasthan, Northern India

Neatly-stacked dried cow dung, hand-formed into pats to be used for fuel for cooking, at a farm in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India

Indian woman in sari carrying cow dung pats to dry for cooking fuel at Khore village in Rajasthan, Northern India

Neatly-stacked dried cow dung, hand-formed into pats to be used for fuel for cooking, at a farm in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India

Indian woman villagers patting cow dung mound for cooking fuel at Kutalpura Village in Rajasthan, Northern India

Indian woman villagers drying cow dung for cooking fuel at Kutalpura Village in Rajasthan, Northern India

A woman cooking on a fuel efficient stove inside a traditional mud hut kitchen, Uganda, Africa

Neatly-stacked dried cow dung, hand-formed into pats to be used for fuel for cooking, at a farm in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India

A woman cooking on a fuel efficient stove inside a traditional mud hut kitchen, Uganda, Africa

Neatly-stacked dried cow dung, hand-formed into pats to be used for fuel for cooking, at a farm in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India

Gathering dung for cooking fires, near Khimsar village, Rajasthan state, India, Asia

Looking down on deforested forest slopes from the air, being replaced by farmland for subsistence agriculture in Malawi. The country is suffering rapid deforestation, to provide both land for farming, and for making charcoal, the main cooking fuel in Malawi.

Looking down on deforested forest slopes from the air, being replaced by farmland for subsistence agriculture in Malawi. The country is suffering rapid deforestation, to provide both land for farming, and for making charcoal, the main cooking fuel in malawi.

Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world, it has been heavily deforested. The deforestation has been to clear land for an expanding population to have access to land to grow subsistence crops and also to make charcoal, which is the main cooking fuel in Malawi. This shot shows men working barefoot and moving massive tree trunks by hand in a logging camp on the Zomba Plateau.

Looking down on deforested forest slopes from the air, being replaced by farmland for subsistence agriculture in Malawi. The country is suffering rapid deforestation, to provide both land for farming, and for making charcoal, the main cooking fuel in Malawi.

Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world, it has been heavily deforested. The deforestation has been to clear land for an expanding population to have access to land to grow subsistence crops and also to make charcoal, which is the main cooking fuel in Malawi. This shot shows a logging camp on the Zomba Plateau.

Uganda cooking matoke, steamed bananas, the staple diet, on a large open fire for a feast day. kangulumira, kayunga district

India - environment: children carrying firewood. Mattappatty village, tamil nadu

Woman carrying wood to be used as fuel for cooking by Nepalese locals living in the Annapurna Himalayas, Nepal, Asia

Women carrying wood to be used as fuel for cooking by Nepalese locals living in the Annapurna Himalayas, Nepal, Asia

Honduras boy collecting firewood banadero, near danli

Morocco, South, Ouarzazate Region, Young Berber Girls Fetching Wood For Cooking

Chile. Mapuche woman heating water in her kitchen, temuco

A Chinese family cooks on a stove fuelled by dried corn stalks and husks which not only cooks the food and heats the water but also heats the house, Heilongjiang province, China, Asia

Burned out and used tablets made from crushed coal, used by Chinese peasants for cooking, China, Asia

A traditional kitchen stove fuelled mainly by dried mazie stalks, also heats the sleeping platforms in the two roomed peasant farmer's house in northern China, Asia

A Chinese family cooks on a stove fuelled by dried corn stalks and husks which not only cooks the food and heats the water but also heats the house, Heilongjiang province, China, Asia

In Northern China once the corn has been harvested the stalks are dried and collected for used as the main fuel by peasant farmers for cooking and heating, China, Asia

In Northern China once corn has been harvested the stalks are dried and collected for use as the main fuel by peasant farmers for cooking and heating, China, Asia

A Chinese family cooks on a stove fuelled by dried corn stalks and husks which not only cooks the food and heats the water but also heats the house, Heilongjiang province, China, Asia

Pot of tea on a camp fire, Tadrat, Algeria, Africa

Pot of tea on a camp fire, Tadrat, Algeria, Africa

Group of friends gathering around bonfire in backyard, drinking tea and warming hands. Two happy couples relaxing and enjoying winter season while sitting around fire. Outdoor winter entertaining

Traditional Brazilian food being prepared on old and popular wood stove, Brasil

Ester Hodari, age 22 years old, cooks dinner using the traditional three-rock cook stove with a fire in the middle. These cookstoves use a lot of fuel, firewood, and produce a lot of smoke. Ester told us that cooking with this type of stove made her eyes turn red and she often had a chest cough. Her children, ages 5, 2 and 3 months are often with her when she is cooking. Her sister-in-law, Shadya Jumanne, age 11, helps her cook as well. Not long ago Ester’s 3 month-old developed a cough, It kept getting worse and so they took her by motorcycle to the hospital at night. Ester started really worrying about this. After this Ester and her husband agreed that they needed to buy a clean cookstove and started saving. The girl helping Ester cook in some of the images is her sister-in-law Shadya Jumanne, age 11. Ester met Solar Sister entrepreneur Fatma Mziray when she married her husband and moved to this village, Mforo near Moshi, Tanzania. Ester said that Fatma is like a mother to her in the village. When Fatma showed Ester the new wood stove she saw that is used less wood and produced less smoke.