Incremental Solutions for a Systemic Crisis
The clean cooking sector is filled with well-intentioned solutions that tinker at the edges: improved cookstoves that still burn dirty fuel, LPG programs that require expensive infrastructure, electric solutions that depend on grids that do not exist. After $2.2 billion in IEA commitments, 1 billion people in Sub-Saharan Africa still lack access to clean cooking.
The problem is not a lack of effort—it is a lack of systems thinking. You cannot solve a supply chain problem by fixing one link. You need to reimagine the entire chain from raw material to household delivery.
Innovation is not about making the old thing better. It is about making something so much better that the old thing becomes obsolete.

