How clean cooking will build Uganda’s climate resilience

For Miriam Nakiwala, an accountant in the private sector, cooking anything beyond a snack means lighting the metallic sigiri (charcoal stove) the family keeps in their detached kitchen. The gas (Liquefied Petroleum Gas – LPG) cooker is kept in her indoor kitchen.

However, Nakiwala rarely lights the gas cooker, only using it to warm sauce for the family’s supper. The idea is to make the gas last at least three months before a refill is required. In Entebbe Municipality, Wakiso district, where she resides, refilling a 12kg gas cylinder costs Shs113,000.

“Since the president…