This document discusses a sustainable cooking fuel initiative in Maputo, Mozambique. It aims to address the problems caused by widespread charcoal use, such as deforestation, respiratory diseases, and carbon emissions. The initiative promotes agroforestry cultivation with farmers to supply fast-growing trees for fuel production. It has opened a plant that produces ethanol for cooking fuel from these trees. The program aims to provide cleaner cooking solutions to thousands of households while generating income for farmers and reducing environmental degradation.

2. Charcoal in Maputo
• > $100M annual consumer spend
• > $25 / month per household
• 10-30% of average incomes
• >100,000 ha annual forest destruction
Key driver of respiratory disease and
death in women & children

3. Charcoal-based deforestation
• Causes land degradation and flooding
• Soil erosion leads to food insecurity
• 10kg of wood = 1kg charcoal
• Major source of CO2 emissions

4. Cooking shouldn’t kill
Indoor charcoal smoke
= 2 packs of cigarettes per day
2 million early deaths per year
from indoor air pollution
World Health Organization
HELP KIDS QUIT!

5. A full value chain approach

6. A low-input agroforestry cultivation
system is at the core of our partnership
with smallholders
Rotation 1
• The system has a 1 ha
agroforestry zone with rows of
fast-growing leguminous
trees/shrubs and alleys planted
with annual crop rotations
• This is surrounded by a 1 ha
forestry shelterbelt zone that
contains indigenous trees and
Pongamia oilseed trees
• The system involves a mix of
multi-purpose crops &
trees, incl.
cassava, cowpea, soyabean, sorg
hum, ground
nut, lucaena, pigeonpea, ponga
mia and native tree species
Forestry Shelterbelt Zone
Rotation 2
Rotation 3
Agroforestry
Zone

7. 7

8. Worlds First Sustainable
Cooking Fuel Plant
Opened 17 May 2012

9. NOVOZYMES PRESENTATION 26/06/2013 9
First tanker-truck with ethanol
ready to leave our plant
14 March 2013

10. 10
NdZilo cooking fuel being
blended and bottled
15 May 2013

11. iLO shop network being rolled out
w-income neighbourhoods

12. mers visit shops to fulfill orders, sign
nty/carbon agreement, take stove and fuel

13. the charcoal sellers are
erting over to ethanol!

14. by end of 2012 by end of 2014 2015+ (not modeled)
• 1000+ farmers
• 3 community-level pre-
processing centres
• 2m litre ethanol cooking
fuel plant commissioned
• Stove manufacturing &
assembly started in
Maputo
• 5000+ cookstove & fuel
customers in Maputo
• ~$10m invested
• 3,000 farmers
• 7 community-level pre-
processing centres
• 20m litres of clean cooking
fuel sold per annum
• Farmer household income
increased at least 3x
• 80,000 urban households
using clean cookstoves
• 320,000 t CERs per annum
• 4,000 ha of avoided forest
destruction per annum
• 2.4 million trees planted in
forest belts (3,000 ha)
• ~$15m invested
• 15,000 farmers in central
Mozambique
• Agroforestry system replicated in
Inhambane & Nampula provinces
• Stove market share expanded to
40% (160,000 households)
• Ethanol cooking fuel production
capacity matched to demand
• Cooking solution launched in
other sub-Saharan African cities
• Potential to leverage several
hundred million dollars of
investment
14
VENTURE WILL ACHIEVE PROFITABILITY
IN 2014 AND THEN EXPAND IN MOZAMBIQUE
AND BEYOND

15. 15