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Energy efficiency and sustainable cooking in Mozambique

Mozambican craftsman works to create a stove for cooking

In Pemba, Mozambique, we run a project in support of sustainable cooking that promotes the use of more energy-efficient cookers in the population, produced by small local companies. The initiative contributes to increasing the sustainability of the Rovuma Basin's natural gas utilisation programme, where we operate through the Rovuma LNG and Coral South projects. Through the Promoting Energy Efficiency and Clean Cooking initiative, we are supporting sustainable artisanal activities, creating jobs and fostering new local entrepreneurship. The cookstoves are also less harmful to health and more efficient for food preparation than traditional ones. Together with natural gas production and liquefaction activities, from 2021 we will promote sustainable development in the country through partnerships and programmes that support the population in the areas of education and technical training, food security and economic diversification.

Main project features

Mozambique

2018 - present

Actions and objectives of the project

An initiative that protects people's health

The new cookers for the city of Pemba are more efficient and sustainable in both environmental and health terms. Due to their slower and more prolonged combustion, they consume less charcoal, which makes them strategic in combating deforestation caused by cutting the wood from which charcoal is made for domestic use. By producing less smoke, they have a lower impact on families in Pemba, particularly children.

African man and woman posing with wooden cooking spoons

Two participants in the event

Man displaying a black kitchen apron with a yellow Eni logo and the words 'Clean Cooking'

The apron worn during the event

African women posing while holding their certificate of participation in the event

The certificate of participation in the event

African women posing inside an outdoor kitchen

Group photo with improved cookstoves

Tangible support for local entrepreneurship

The distribution of the improved cookers among the most vulnerable families also involves local artisans. The entire community, in fact, is affected by the emergence of small factories within it, paving the way for a truly sustainable market for these new devices that can then be sold in other areas of the country.

Highlights
230 k

improved cookstoves distributed in 2024 thanks to the Clean Cooking Program

~1,5 mln
peolpe

reached since the start of the Clean Cooking Program

5
local companies

supported to produce cookstoves efficiently

230 k

improved cookstoves distributed in 2024 thanks to the Clean Cooking Program

~1,5 mln
peolpe

reached since the start of the Clean Cooking Program

5
local companies

supported to produce cookstoves efficiently

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Last update: 05 September 2025
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