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Resource April 20, 2017

Meet the Journalists: Nathalie Bertrams and Ingrid Gercama

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Rose Kandodo is cooking nsima, a maize porridge, on an improved cook stove in Nessa village. Image by Nathalie Bertrams. Malawi, 2016.
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Globally, cooking smoke causes over 4 million deaths per year. Can improved cookstoves save lives...

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"Unclean" cooking is causing a global health crisis with huge environmental consequences. The World Health Organization (WHO) has already called exposure to smoke produced by burning biomass fuels "a leading environmental risk factor for death and disability in the world." Pulitzer grantees Ingrid Gercama and Nathalie Bertrams traveled to Malawi to report on the perils of cooking smoke for The Guardian, Süddeutsche Zeitung, New Internationalist, Mo* and VersPers.

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